Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to solve. These plans were almost always preceded by funding cuts, system i can safety and reliability problems caused a great deal of upheaval in the transportation and forced countries to renational lies a system. With that being said, we think that amtraks longterm next general plan for the northeast corridor provides a temp plate for a Public Private partnership that is worth discussing. If the par
That political games have gotten in the way, and they are affecting how these kids are getting to the olympics. How many times will people get to the olympics in their lifetime, really . It is really sad. When i was growing up, the olympics were not a political statement, you know . I mean, they were friendship between global countries. Host thank you for all of your calls. Well be back for your comments tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. Enjoy the rest of your thursday. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] violent crashes have erupted again in the ukrainian capital of kiev shortly after a truce was appeared to have been reached last night. More than 20 people have been killed today, to bring the death toll to over 60 over the last several days. The head of the Security Administration resigned, saying we must the guided only by the interest of the people. This most recent update now, from the Associat
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First, the top story this hour, turkey, 350 Police Officers have been fired overnight. Sackings were announced by government to creat midnight, including the heads of major departments. It was the Biggest Police shakeup since last month. The Prime Minister has accused the police and Prime Minister of a dirty plot. More on the background of the overnight sackings. Rated the homes of highly clay people in the hierarchy. Including the manager of the , four point 5 million was stacked in his house in shoeboxes. I also found that the interior ministry had one point 2 million stashed in their house. They have reassigned some 70 Police Officers. One prosecutor went ahead and issued all of those warrants and theons, including one for price of the sun. The government told the police not to serve these warrants and then moved to the prosecutor. Happened earlyat this morning, there appears to be a second wave of removals and reassignments of Police Officers. Many of these Police Officers were tak