European "citizen journalism" article on Amtrak

An article discussing Amtrak on a European site named "AgoraVox" discusses dropping long distance Amtrak service. AgoraVox describes itself as a European initiatives for a totally free of charge "citizen journalism". I thought it would be cool to link to a non US perspective on Amtrak. The article is by 'Nbleven' whose profile lists him as living in Washington DC, so I'm not sure how much of a non-US perspective this is.