Former Amk president David Gunn -- who the Bush Adm fired
> despite being extremely well respected -- proposed a very
> cost efficient upgrading using conventional equipment.
This is one of those really wierd scenarios where you don't necessarily know who is worse, the typically incompetent and/or immoral Bush Administration, or Mr. Gunn, who, prior to his so called 'work' for Amtrak, was General Manager -- or should I say mangler -- of Washington D.C.'s WMATA metrorail system. I suspect he snuck out of WMATA and over to Amtrak before it was discovered just how far he had run the place into the ground, a practice which has been reported in the Washington Post as being continued by those who succeeded him.