Kansas City Star
Missouri Weighs Offer To Privatize Amtrak Route

By Tim Hoover

Faced with a 44 percent increase in the cost of Amtrak service next year, Missouri is considering a St. Joseph company's offer to take over passenger rail.

John Spychalski, a business professor at Pennsylvania State University and an expert on rail transport, agreed that privatization of passenger rail is risky.

"Unless it's done very carefully, it could have consequences that could be more negative than positive," Spychalski said. "The British experience has been far less than totally favorable."

Spychalski said no form of transportation—rail, air or highway—operates without significant government subsidy.

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