History is a great teacher.
Deja Vu appears all over the following documents provided by Senator John Tower in 1979. It is time for this stalemate to be broken with a very forceful approach or history will repeat itself in another 18 years. What goes around comes around. This vicious circle needs to come to a halt. DOT's recommendations, which were mandated by the Amtrak Improvement Act of 1978, called for the elimination of 12,000 miles, or 43 percent, of the present rail services.