_TheSalt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Thursday, January 28, 1999 CENTERPIECE CONSUMER CORNER Amtrak’s Future: More Speed, More Tracks Butnot everyoneis on board new CEO’s plan to expandrider and cargoservices throughoutthe nation FDAto Carb Antibiotics Given to Farm Animals WASHINGTON — Thegovernment plans to impose strict new rules on antibiotics given to farm animals to combat concerns that the medicinesare creating drug-resistant germs that wind up in the meat peopleeat. Antibiotics are fast losing their ability to fight infections, mostly because people misuse the vital irugs: Doctors often overprescribe them andpatients often don’t take them properly But scientists say antibiotics used on the farm noware causing foodbornebacteria to mutate into treatment-resistant forms. Clot-Buster Poses Risk OfSpreading Disease WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) irged doctors to consider prescrib- ing alternative drugs to Abbott Laboratories’ clot-buster Abbokinise, saying it poses a potential risk of spreadinginfectiousdisease. In a letter to doctors Monday, the FDA warnedthat Abbokinase, known chemically as urokinase, should “bereservedonly for those situations where a physician has red the alternatives and has mined that the use of Abbokinase is critical.” \bbokinaseis from kidney cells taken from newborns who have died. The FDA said the kidneycells were taken from foreign newborns who wereat high risk of carrying infectiousdiseases, including hepa- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL says Phyllis Scheinberg,associate director for It’s enough to makeweary travelers gape in awe — gleaming green andcreamtrain with "It’s very exciting and futuristic. 1957 Cadillac andthe space shuttle. On board, passengers find the sleek European-style train races along, with a 90 percent on-time Kurt Jensen Seattle Amtrak rider faa You can’t believe it’s Amtrak.” 7-foottall fins. It looks like a cross between a arrival record. Another super train from Germany or France? Try the Pacific Northwest, where Amtrak this month started operating the new transportation issues for the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Con- gress. Thenthere's theissue of subsidies. Amtrak hasn't turneda profit during its 27-year history and continues to depend on federal support to cover an annual gap of more than $800 million between revenue and expenses. Although somehigh-speed passenger trains track before, only to be derailed. And there are plenty of obstacles this time, starting with ism among an ip i in Japan and France are considered profit- like a business where the customers count,” says David DiCola, an attorney in Providence, R.1., and a longtime Amtrak rider. “But too often they act like it is run for their conve- ington. “It’s probably justnot realistic to ask Amtrakto do so,”’ he adds. Amtrakofficials insist they will prove the William Withuhn, transportation curator of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, around Amtrak's fortunes, with a twist. In- While still beleaguered by financial woes ment” to change Amtrak's direction. One of “Amtrak has nickel-and-dimeditself over the big jobs for Warrington, he says, will be “to fire up employees who have heard prom- the past 20 yearsto thepoint that successis nation’s first high-speed trains late this year, “After a while you get a bunker mentality,” concedes Daniel O'Connell, a general chair- Amtrak president before his current appoint- trains betweenSeattle and Portland. “It’s very exciting andfuturistic,” says Kurt “They keep promisingthat they will run it Jensen. whorunshis ownarchitecturefirm in Seattle. “You can’t believeit’s Amtrak.” After years of service and financial problems, the nation’s passenger railroad has begun inching in a newdirection: improvement. With a new chief executive and $2 billion in nience, not mine. federal funds to invest, Amtrak plans to add trains, improve stations and polish service in hopesof boosting riders and revenue. says“it will take more than miracle manage- and delays, Amtrak is preparingto launch the ises of turnaroundsbefore.” which will hurtle between Boston and Wash- ingtonat up to 150 milesperhour.It plans to restore inter-city passenger trains to Oklahomaand Maine. And it is starting its most extensive makeover yet of on-board service, with new menus. more legroom and tougher standards to govern the conduct of employ- man of the United Transportation Union in Trenton, N.J., which represents Amtrak train and engine crew members. Another challenge: Amtrak's system remains a hodgepodgeof the busy Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, ees. Time is running out. George Warrington, who was named Amtrak's new president and chief executive in December, faces a Congres- scattered short-distance corridorsin the Midwest and WestCoast and a series of long-haul trains. The routes run through enough con- sional mandate to make Amtrak break even gressionaldistricts to have retained political by the end of 2002. If it doesn’t, the railroad could face substantial restructuring or even liquidation. Congress has provided the infusion of capital in hopes Amtrak can modernize quickly enough to reach the goal support, but haveproved costly to operate. “If the country wants Amtrak to have the current route system, it is going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Amtrak to reach this goal of self-sufficiency,” Amtrak has traveled down the recovery able, very few railroads in the world make money on says Louis Thompson, railways adviser at the World Bank in Wash- skeptics wrong. Bolstered bya recent uptick in train travel, they are laying plans to turn stead ofcutting routes and shrinking services, they will expand them defined as survival,” says Warrington, a career transit bureaucrat who servedasacting ment. “But that’s not my management style, and it is not my definition of success.” Warrington is promising to deal head-on with one of the biggest complaints against Amtrak: inconsistent service. He plans to introduce uniform performance standards for employees, and service guarantees for customers. Amtrak might even start to compensate dissatisfied passengers. Amtrak expects to garner as much as $180 million a year in additional revenue from high-speed trains in the Northeast Corridor. The new trains will improvetravel times between Washington and New York but will have the most dramatic effect between New THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWYORK — SuperBowladvertisingleg- offices. 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