Maybe the "BIG" surprise is an Amtrak official working hard at his desk in a glass cage in the middle of Washington Union Station...oh wait, I said the dirty word~ WORK !!! :lol:
Like the old goat says in the Geico commercials Dave....Naaaahhh, Naaaahh, Naaaahh :lol: It's probably something simple like the 50% bonus for fall trips. :cool:
Well Dutch, Transamerica has a five year contract with five one year extensions. I can promise you the leadership of this Caltrain management team will be more responsive and transparent than any other Amtrak contracted service I've ever experienced. Go to caltrain.com and read the reasons just...
Whatever Dutch...Amtrak had the contract from the time the SP gave it up in the '80's. I think it deserves to be called getting the boot...
If Obama gets defeated in the next election don't we say he was voted out of office ??? I don't know where you're going with this ???
I feel sorry for you and your daughter. Wires were crossed resulting in your being misinformed. I do have to give Amtrak an A plus for not putting pax and crews in harms way. I live 8 miles from the Hammond, LA station and we had winds of 60 mph and at least six inches of rain (my rain gauge...
Just when is somebody going to do something about taking the flag stop status off of Slidell, LA so we can get our broken up 264 foot platform that requires a double stop each and every day fixed? Approaching 10,000 boardings and de-trainings this fiscal year we are not a flag stop community...
TRANSAMERICA won the operating contract to run, maintain and crew 86 trains a day. This other deal sounds like an outside contractor who is doing the duties of an agency representing Caltrain.
In a unanimous vote today (9/1) the Caltrain board awarded the San Francisco to San Jose/Gilroy Caltrain contract to Transamerica, a division of Herzog Transit Services.