February 7, 2009: The Hook "Train Pain: Bus boss says Amtrak could doom Starlight"
Submitted by VHSR on February 7, 2009 - 3:00am.
Rail News
One of the founders of the Starlight Express linking Charlottesville to New York says his popular bus service might be doomed by a planned daily Amtrak train that the governor would like to subsidize.
“If the Amtrak really gets successful, we’ll almost certainly close our doors,” says Oliver Kuttner. “We’re marginally profitable now,” Kuttner adds, “so if we lose 20 percent of our customers, it probably won’t make sense to continue.”