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The tracks were repaired within a few weeks after Katrina recovery began. The then Amtrak management decided they did not wish to reinstate the suspended segment of the three times a week Sunset.At present there is no equipment or funding for restoring service on the segment between Mobile and JAX. The ball currently is ion the court of the Southern Rail Commission which owns the project for starting a service. According to PRIIA Section 209 it has to be locally funded since the distance is less than 750 miles. That is where things stand. This has little to do with current Amtrak management, since nothing has changed over many different managements.Turns out that even the local folks do not wish to reinstate the on time performance uncertainty of a three days in a week service that Sunset restoration would give them, so that is not going to get funded. They prefer a local service with reliable on time performance that runs daily.
The tracks were repaired within a few weeks after Katrina recovery began. The then Amtrak management decided they did not wish to reinstate the suspended segment of the three times a week Sunset.
At present there is no equipment or funding for restoring service on the segment between Mobile and JAX. The ball currently is ion the court of the Southern Rail Commission which owns the project for starting a service. According to PRIIA Section 209 it has to be locally funded since the distance is less than 750 miles. That is where things stand. This has little to do with current Amtrak management, since nothing has changed over many different managements.
Turns out that even the local folks do not wish to reinstate the on time performance uncertainty of a three days in a week service that Sunset restoration would give them, so that is not going to get funded. They prefer a local service with reliable on time performance that runs daily.
