David Gunn to be Fired Today

by Aaron Hockley on November 9, 2005

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110900643.html

I guess that’s what happens when you’re more interested in running a railroad than playing politics.

  • http://www.cafepress.com/empirebuilder Mike Smith

    Running a railroad? Running it into the ground perhaps (not that he had far to go).

    A leader doesn’t whine because he doesn’t have the resources he thinks he needs. He takes the resources he has and does the best he can. I hope they pick someone with the balls to start cutting back or shutting down lines that lose the most money, and start putting their resources into the lines that have the potential to turn a profit. Or at least break even.

  • eln

    I have to say I took Amtrak home after 9/11 and being evacuated in Newark Airport and there was absolutely ZERO security on the train. I spoke with the conductors about it and they said that Amtrak needed like millions of dollars to get the system up to par, to replace tracks, to upgrade, and to put into place security.

    Bush administration wants to continually cut any subsidies going into the Amtrak system. No security on Amtrak and no upgraded tracks. See what will happen down the road and think about Madrid and London and train terrorist attacks.

    When you cut back on security and things of this nature, you are begging for trouble.

    You all do the math.

  • http://replacingamtrak.blogspot.com Joseph Vranich

    I welcome the Amtrak Board of Director’s decision to fire David Gunn. What this agency needs now is a true reform minded person who is willing to make the hard decisions necessary to be competitive. It is time to end the Federal subsidy of Amtrak and the only way to get there is by reevaluating the entire system as it is now. Firing the keepers of the status quo is a good first step.

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