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Ridership Increased During The First Decade Of The 21st Century After Implementation Of Capital Improvements In The NEC And Rises In Automobile Fuel Costs The Inauguration Of The High-speed Acela Express In Late 2000 Generated Considerable Publicity And Led To Major Ridership Gains However Through The Late 1990s And Very Early 21st Century Amtrak Could Not Add Sufficient Express Freight Revenue Or Cut Sufficient Other Expenditures To Break Even By 2002 It Was Clear That Amtrak Could Not Achieve Self-sufficiency But Congress Continued To Authorize Funding And Released Amtrak From The Requirement In Early 2002 David L Gunn Replaced Warrington As President In A Departure From His Predecessors' Promises To Make Amtrak Self-sufficient In The Short Term Gunn Argued That No Form Of Passenger Transportation In The United States Is Self-sufficient As The Economy Is Currently Structured Highways Airports And Air Traffic Control All Require Large Government Expenditures To Build And Operate Coming From The Highway Trust Fund And Aviation Trust Fund Paid For By User Fees Highway Fuel And Road Taxes And In The Case Of The General Fund From General Taxation Gunn Dropped Most Freight Express Business And Worked To Eliminate Deferred Maintenance