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May 28, 2004
Your Tripping on Your Own Feet Starts Here. Apparently a foot squirmed out from underneath the boulder of self-sufficiency Congress had placed on the failing figure of Amtrak (well, the parts that hadn't been already covered by the slow, expensive, and very oddly-marketed Acela fiasco), and instread of waiting for some highway happy representative from the Sun Belt to do the honors, Amtrak took that self-sufficiency mandate seriously and decided to shoot it right off.
Today, The New York Times reports Amtrak is threatening to not move into the station that Daniel Moynihan spent years trying to get rebuilt.