But it should also make a commitment to improve passenger rail.
The company provides all passenger rail and limited freight service.
In recent times, efforts at reforming passenger rail have addressed labor issues.
It will establish passenger rail for the first time since the 1970s.
Washington lawmakers are haggling over next year's budget for passenger rail.
The future of American passenger rail may depend on it.
By the late 1960s, the end of passenger rail in the United States seemed near.
It now seemed that passenger rail's financial problems might bring down the railroad industry as a whole.
The challenge with passenger rail has always been its financing and management.
If the federal government needed another reason to support the development of modern, high-speed passenger rail, then here it is.