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Congratulations to Daniel Eisenberg for a strong, balanced piece on Amtrak and its future [BUSINESS, Dec. 3]. Breaking up Amtrak only to reinvent it would be a mistake. The intercity rail system is one of the few institutions that unites our country, in a physical as well as spiritual sense, by connecting the small towns and cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone...
Dukakis began his activism in the rail industry while a state legislator in the 1960s, as he opposed the popular belief that aiports and interstates would be sufficient means for transportation in the United States...
Dukakis translated his ideology into action as governor, spending $35 million to purchase old railroad lines that were then remodeled as the MBTA Commuter Rail...
Dukakis—who regularily commuted to the State House using the MBTA—was behind refurbishing and extending MBTA service during his tenure as governor, and has now turned to expanding rail on a national scale...
Dukakis touched on another issue of local concern, the expansion of MBTA commuter rail service to Providence’s T.F. Green Airport...