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Joe Manchin, the senior Senator from West Virginia, has inserted language in the FY19 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill that will force Amtrak to employ at least one ticketing agent in every state that it serves.
His reasoning? "Amtrak has told me that most of their sales are now online, but West Virginians buy far more tickets at the Charleston station than most places around the country. That's not surprising, as nearly 30% of West Virginia is without internet access, and mobile broadband access is also difficult in my state's rugged, mountainous terrain, making online ticket sales difficult."
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Senator Makes Amtrak Hire Ticket Agents Because 30% of West Virginia Lacks Internet
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 11 2018, @12:14AM
Isn't that why we have all been paying into a federal fund on our phone bill for decades?
Then they pirated that off for Schools.
Then for budget balances etc.
This is broken windows theory all over again.
Saddling Amtrak with a boat load of employees forever (while wailing about how inefficient Amtrak is) won't fix anything. It certainly won't fix the internet.
If you can get a road there, you can get a fiber optic cable there. Its literally that easy. Make the State highway department trench in the cables and let the municipality contract for town cell towers. And pay for it from that universal access fund.
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