You have got to educate people, and you need to enforce existing laws, so that people do not intrude onto grade crossings and that people are more careful as they approach grade crossings.
There are pluses for both Amtrak and its passengers.
We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.
We really regret this, but this was beyond Amtrak's ability. This made it impossible for our trains to proceed until this morning, and even then there was a tremendous amount of freight train congestion.
We will do that to help alleviate the discomfort because of the terrible delays.
We will be severely delayed. But we need to get the people to their destinations.
Would we add items to our wish list of capital; projects? Yes. But we are getting back on track.
We are spending $250 million a year on the Northeast Corridor infrastructure. We are playing catch-up, but we are well on our way to bringing the Northeast Corridor to a state of good repair.
The fares will not be driven strictly by time of day, or day of week, although we will loosely follow that. They will be driven by the number of advance reservations and are keyed to times of day, to some extent.
The cost of propulsion, the cost of fuel, keeps going up.
