Help Keep Amtrak Going!

Councilmember LaBonge received unanimous council support today for a City resolution supporting S.294 that would fund Amtrak through 2012. Amtrak, the nation’s passenger rail line, operates the popular Pacific Surfliner from San Diego to San Luis Obispo that carries nearly a quarter million passengers a month. “In our heavily congested region when more people than ever seek alternatives to traveling our crowded freeways, we cannot lose Amtrak,” he said at a press conference today outside Union Station. S. 294’s price tag is $1.2 billion for six years. It has bi-partisan support in Congress.