Government and railroads: Complex issue

There are a few feedback in Ms. Averill’s March 4th letter [“Freight trains: ‘Run rail for the public good’,” March 5, Northwest voices] that trigger me concern. Authorities is just not setup to run a enterprise, particularly one as complicated as a railroad, so nationalization would trigger extra issues than the present questions of safety it could or could not remedy. It’s extra vital that authorities be efficient somewhat than environment friendly, and a government-owned railroad could be neither.

I feel staff must be intimately concerned with their enterprise so far as their particular person jobs and the chance for possession, however operating a enterprise requires time and each management and administration expertise that too many staff lack.

A 3rd path to working a enterprise exists — as a not-for-profit entity — and will result in an attention-grabbing dialogue that’s most likely too seldom used.

Rowan Hinds, Issaquah