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Old Oct 1, 2013 | 7:54 am
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Originally Posted by ne52
They've announced a couple times in the last week that travel wouldn't be affected in the short-term. How long 'short-term' is will be TBD and I don't know if there's any impact to staffing.

I'm not sure of the technicalities in Amtrak's case but there are a handful of agencies that can operate off reserve funds anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks.

http://thehill.com/blogs/transportat...ent-shuts-down
This is good news. Thank you both!
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