Beech Grove Amtrak to Close?
Posted by PunchTheBag on 20 February 2005 | 5 responses
It’s about time that the repair shop for Amtrak trains at Beech Grove (near Indianapolis) closes.
Subsidizing this maintenance facility has been a continuing issue for the twenty years I’ve been living in Indy.
If Amtrak is going to essentially become an east coast operation we don’t need to send the trains to Indiana for repairs.
Governor Daniels is showing some political courage by calling for no more federal money for the operation. Of course he may not want to ride his new bus into Beech Grove for any town hall meetings.
5 Responses to “Beech Grove Amtrak to Close?”
Funny, but the amount by which the taxpayers of Indiana subsidized the United Airlines maintenance facility @ IND (now closed, another consequence of the “private” airline industries immolation) would have kept Beech Grove open [i]for decades[/i]
greg, on train #6 outside Reno. This car could use a trip to Beech Grove for a wash.
p.s. How much does OMB Daniels’ Amtrak initiative save? A day’s worth of Iraq costs?
oops. Industries->Industry’s
greg
Pare all turkeys off the public pap.
Translation: Or at least those turkeys that are the most cost-effective. Leave the real corporate welfare alone….
greg
You need to brush up on how to translate. What is wrong with paring corporate welfare? I think Mitch is saying that he can’t defend this sort of corporate welfare. Was that too hard to understand?