Amtrak has been trying to pawn off long distance costs to the states for a few years now.

Covid provides great cover for lots of things!

Look at this:

https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/tag/amtrak-service-reductions/

"If Congress directs us to operate a seven-day service we will,” Flynn said.

But he warned that if Congress doesn’t provide suitable funding Amtrak will “have to make additional cuts to the workforce, and it would certainly affect our capital plans and suggest reductions on the Northeast Corridor and perhaps elsewhere on the national network.”

Flynn said Amtrak has not developed contingency plans for operating a daily long-distance network past October.



Jornada del muro fronterizo Wrote:
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> Now is not the time to add trains. In case you
> missed it, revenue and demand is way down on state
> corridors, so they don’t want to add any more
> empty trains.
>
> For example, the Capitol Corridor only has 8 round
> trips a day, compared to 14, and they are ghost
> towns.



Only time will tell if:
1) Riders return to MASS anything

2)If and when they do, how fast MASS anything can spring back to life