Re-regulating the rails

Re-regulating the rails

Thomas A. Moore Thomas A. Moore

Thomas A. Moore

发布日期: 2021年7月20日
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Presidential order is trying to push:

  • Reciprocal switching.?This enables competition and decouples a shipper from the railroad whose tracks are next to their building. ?In Tom’s opinion = good
  • More Amtrak trains on freight rails.?The Presidential order encourages the Surface Transportation Board “to require railroad track owners to provide rights of way to passenger rail and to?strengthen their obligations to treat other freight companies fairly.”?In Tom’s opinion = bad
  • More regulation of rates.?In Tom’s opinion = very bad

I remember the “bad-old-days” were railroads were highly regulated. ?Regulation generated rate complexity, under investment in infrastructure, and poor service.?The Presidential order summary says there are only seven Class I freight railroads compared to 33 four decades ago.?What it fails to point out is?a lot of railroads went bankrupt in that time and since deregulation (1981),?Rail?freight prices have dropped 44%.?(Inconvenient facts are normally?omitted)?

Major US railroads:?Source USDOT

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