
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 22, 1993                   TAG: 9310220098
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AMTRAK CUTS SERVICE ON 3 ROUTES

To save $10 million a year, Amtrak will reduce service on three passenger train routes and shut 15 ticket offices Nov. 4.

The rail line said it is forced to cut service because it is not getting a requested increase in federal subsidies this year to offset declining ticket sales, spokesman Howard Robertson said Thursday.

The service reductions are all on lines serving the Midwest and Texas. None of the ticket offices is in Virginia.

The closings combined with previously announced staff reductions will eliminate 33 jobs.

Amtrak wants to eliminate 149 other positions this year for further savings, but has not identified where those cuts would be imposed.

Amtrak revenues for the 1991-92 fiscal year were $1.3 billion, down from $1.4 billion the previous year. Figures for the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, have not been compiled.

by CNB