Amtrak says it could cut service over vaccination mandate

Amtrak will need to reduce service in January unless more employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, the passenger rail system’s president says. Stephen Gardner says about 95% of Amtrak workers are at least partially vaccinated. The rest face a Jan. 4 deadline that the Biden administration set for employees of federal contractors. If enough employees resist getting the shots, Amtrak anticipates ‘”proactively needing to temporarily reduce some train frequencies across our network in January,” Gardner told a congressional panel Thursday. Gardner said any service reductions would last until Amtrak is able to fully staff up, which he said could last until March.
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