This company is imploding. It’s becoming more apparent CoVid has/had very little to do with it. Managements decisions to cut back services/mothball fleets/defer maintenance/offer buyouts/drag feet on hiring all in the face of record bailouts from the government to do exactly the opposite have caused this. The plan was put in motion prior to CoVid during the Anderson/Gardner regime and it hasn’t changed under the surface.
Just think of where Amtrak would be sitting with this windfall if they would have taken the money and used the time with the downturn in ridership to get the house in order. Even in the height of the pandemic the national system was showing glimmers of hope but management continued to plan for cutbacks. For a company that is solely corridor focused they can’t even run the corridors they have. The time for excuses is over. People talk about DeJoy and his issues at USPS, but for those who follow Amtrak, Gardner and the BOD are making a bigger mockery of Joe Biden aka “Amtrak Joe” than DeJoy is.
