WASHINGTON — Neil Moyer has been appointed director of the Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Passenger Rail, STB Chairman Martin J. Oberman announced Monday.
The office, established in October 2022, is responsible for investigating and analyzing issues regarding Amtrak on-time performance. Moyer has coordinated the STB’s responsibilities in this area since mid-2021, assisted the board in establishing the new office, and overseen the office’s implementation of its investigative mandate. The board is currently conducting its first investigation of on-time performance, regarding a complaint brought by Amtrak in December 2022 regarding the Sunset Limited [see “Amtrak asks federal regulators to investigate …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 9, 2022].
“The selection of Neil Moyer as Director of the Office of Passenger Rail is a critical step in ensuring the Board’s preparedness to meet its important oversight and adjudicatory responsibilities with regard to passenger rail OTP,” Oberman said in a press release. “Mr. Moyer is well-suited for this responsibility, considering his deep experience in the passenger rail arena. I am confident in the Board’s ability to meet its ongoing passenger rail OTP responsibilities and play its part in improving the service quality of the nation’s intercity passenger rail system.”
Moyer has been a member of the STB staff since 2014, previously serving at the Federal Railroad Administration as chief of the Intercity Passsenger Rail Analysis Division and chief of the Financial and Economic Analysis Division.
Blahblahblah. Good luck–he will need it. Performance is in the pudding. Tough job to make it in the Government Soup.
I know bringing back printed TT’s isn’t in the listed Job Description but a simple listing of trains might allow me to choose one of them to go to Philly and rent a car rather than driving down to Reading from Boston via Albany & Binghamton. Better entertrainment than I-84, but by train I could give 66 & 67 more needed business and leave the D&H to another trip.
Yes but that would deprive another government appointed worker from building a kingdom that will accomplish nothing except employ a lot of people at the tax payers expense that will do little to make the NATIONAL passenger system any more effective than it already isn’t… The only solution is to separate Long Distance Interstate Passenger (400-500 miles or more) from Commuter rail like the Northeast Corridor and similar agencies. Then the problems could be attacked for what they are, not for what they aren’t.