Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:35:17 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Amtrak Tickets
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>I've nver been asked to show ID for Amtrak.

from :http://www.amtrak.com/idrequire.html :
"Effective immediately, Amtrak is implementing several new security =
measures for the benefit of our guests.  Consequently, guests will be =
required to produce valid photo identification when purchasing
tickets or checking baggage. All guests, 18 years or older, should be sure =
to carry a driver's license,
passport or other photo identification when making a purchase."

Gosh . . . inconsistent implementation of policies?  Shock! Horror!

mjw

 Not when
>I've pruchased in person and not when I've ordered by
>mail.  My dad has been asked to show ID when he's
>ordered from the website and picked the ticket up from
>the station.  When I ordered from the website but had
>the ticket mailed to me I didn't have to show ID.  Of
>course, at the time I was travelling, the 6:25 train
>had been cancelled and they were trying to fit what
>seemed like half of Union station on the 5:40 train to
>NYC, so the station attendants may not have asked for
>id in an effort not to be trasmpled to death by the
>irate crowd.
>
>--cathy
>--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> >Id is required if you want to pay by cash - if you
>> use a credit card no =
>> id
>> >is ever asked for.
>>
>> Here in Baltimore if you purchase your ticket at the
>> counter - dealing =
>> with a carbon based lifeform know as a ticket agent
>> - they ask for picture =
>> id, regardless of form of payment.
>>
>> mjw
>>
>>  You buy the ticket at the kiosk and be on your
>> merry
>> >way.
>> >
>> >Sally C. Hand
>> >Law Librarian
>> >US Department of Labor
>> >200 Constitution Ave, NW
>> >Washington DC 20210
>> >
>> >(202) 693 6615
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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