If we’ve learned anything from the Carnival Poop Cruise earlier this year, it’s to bring an electrical generator wherever — or however — we travel. That’s probably impractical, but as passengers on an Amtrak train stuck for 14 hours outside of Richmond, Va. learned, when the electricity is spotty, having a working potty is a luxury. [More]
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File Under “T” For “Troubling”: Amtrak Workers Are Failing Drug Tests More Often
By 10.1.12 — Updated: 9.30.12
You know how it’s really important to trust the people in charge of operating heavey machinery/vehicles that you’re riding in? Well that trust might be a little tiny bit shaken when you hear that Amtrak workers — conductors, mechanics and engineers and the like — have been failing drug and alcohol tests more frequently in the last six years. And it seems not much is being done about it, says a new report. [More]
