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Message   Ardith Hinton    Mike Powell   Amtrak delays   March 27, 2019
 8:10 PM *  

Hi, Mike!  Recently you wrote in a message to MICHAEL DUKELSKY:

 DM>  The majority of Amtrak's delays are due to freight railroads
 DM>  giving priority to their own trains over passenger trains.
 DM>  Even though this is explicitly against the law, only 1
 DM>  violator has ever been charged by the Department of Justice
 DM>  in the entire 47-year history of Amtrak.

 MD>  Denis, this echo is not for exercises with a robot. It is a
 MD>  human-only echo. So please stop your robot posting anything
 MD>  here.

 MP>  Maybe he meant that for a railroading echo?


           Now that you mention it, I see there's an echo called RAILFAN which
has recent traffic together with at least one contributor Denis already knows.

           In the E_T echo people do quote news articles & whatnot at times...
because they want to know e.g. whether "the majority of [blah blah]" should be
treated as plural, to which I'd answer "yes" after running some other examples
through my head.  Whether or not the claims in one news article or another are
valid is generally best directed to an echo specializing in the topic....  :-)




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