Joseph Vranich helped to create and expand Amtrak as executive director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers in the early 1970s. His long career in passenger rail service included two years as president of the High Speed Rail Association and work as the media affairs manager at Amtrak. He is the author of Derailed: What Went Wrong
Mr. Vranich made the conversion from spokesman to scourge, arguing in books titled 'Derailed' and 'End of the Line' that train service would never improve as long as Amtrak had a monopoly on it... Amtrak officials no longer pretend that Acela is the futurethey've vowed not to buy any more of the trainsbut they insist that they still know the solution to passengers' woes: more money from Washington. Last week, though, the Bush administration adopted Mr. Vranich's idea of giving the federal money to someone other than the folks who brought us the Acela. -- John Tierney The New York Times
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