Posted on 08/04/2014 5:25:58 PM PDT by george76
Scores of travelers were stranded after the Acela Express 2253 took off from one platform about 3 p.m. — while they were waiting at another and unaware the train was leaving them behind.
An Amtrak train bound for Washington pulled away from Penn Station on Saturday without some pretty important cargo: its passengers.
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They literally sent us to the wrong platform, and the conductor took off without any passengers,” said Damien Miano, 60, of Chelsea. “The right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing. It was just so bizarre.”
Miano said he and the other abandoned travelers eventually returned to the main level, where a red-faced Amtrak manager explained what happened and passed out bags of Doritos.
The manager said the conductor left without getting the okay,.
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LOL!! Maybe Slow Joe Biden wanted to ride ALONE!!
But did it arrive on time?
AMTRAK: Don’t leave the station, with passengers!
Like John Kerry on the Bap Hap River, they left “a man behind”. In fact, many of them and women and children.
Amtrak: Just when you think they can’t screw up any worse, they do.
This has got to be one of the coolest/creepiest scenes in a movie ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLf6pp5Tvk8
did the conductor forget what that string was on his finger for ???
If a train leaves the station and travels at an average speed of 47mph, meanwhile the passengers are traveling at an average speed of 0mph, prove this is Bush’s Fault.
Conductor = union worker = couldn’t care less
No one will be fired. The Amtrak senior execs will get a bonus.
Should have passed out bags of Nerds.
Mike Dukakis still an Amtrak bigwig?
Idiots at all levels of gov’t employment.
No. His work was done in 1999.
Just think—The same people in charge of Amtrak are also in charge of healthcare.
Not really true, but sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.
ah so that was awhile ago...a friend of mine in Calif. is a big transit advocate and he mentioned how thrilled he was to meet Dukakis. Yuck.
Dukakis is a very modest man. Of course, he has much to be modest about.
Even Willie Green would have been embarrassed.
Union/Gubment operation.
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