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Amtrak Turns 40…Called a ‘Massive Failure’ by its Founder
TheBlaze ^
| May 7, 2011
| Mike Opelka
Posted on 05/07/2011 5:15:29 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:15:32 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
I have never ridden on Amtrak. However, I have ridden in many trains in Europe. They are pretty nice if you want to go for a short couple hour trip. Amtrak might get some traction if they make it more luxurious and have it for the wealthy. Just a thought. Right now everyone pretty much thinks that Amtrak is for the poor or lower middle class people and won’t ride them. Same with the buses. Who wants to ride on a bus or train with some smelly people right next to you.
To: george76
I see they’re meeting on High speed rail this week in Ann Arbor. (LaHood, Stabenow, Levin, and I assume Governor Snyder)
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:20:02 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: george76
I love train travel......in Europe.
In America it is dreadful.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:20:12 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(I didn't reach the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian.)
To: napscoordinator
I hate flying with drunk people, especially when it’s the pilot!
To: napscoordinator
To make that happen all they would have to do is charge the real, unsubsidized, price per passenger.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:24:39 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Trump is fearless, and if he announces, he's going to fight a fight we've never seen, and will win.)
To: napscoordinator
Yes, and if jammed a a fifth of our population into an area the size or Oregon trains might makes sense, or at least be less of an abortion. We are not Europe though, so commuter trains don’t work on an economic basis.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:26:42 PM PDT
by
MSF BU
(YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
To: napscoordinator
Amtrak might get some traction if they make it more luxurious and have it for the wealthy.NYC used to have a "Plane to the Train" service to JFK Airport. They charged extra for that express train and people would pay extra to use it to commute to work. I asked a conductor about the MTA expanding that type of service and he explained that the MTA didn't care about the extra money because the more they got in fares was the less they got in federal subsidy. It's probably the same with Amtrak.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:30:09 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: george76
Not a complete failure.
Leftists and liberals will be sure to use its “business model” to fund the socialist medicine they are cramming down the throats of a protesting America.
To: MSF BU
Yes, and if jammed a a fifth of our population into an area the size or Oregon trains might makes sense, or at least be less of an abortion. We are not Europe though, so commuter trains dont work on an economic basis.
Yeah, Western Europe has about 400,000,000 people in an area about that of the U.S. east of the Mississippi.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:30:41 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: george76
Some of America's finest scenery is on the California Zephyr linking Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, Reno, Sacramento & San Francisco.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:33:46 PM PDT
by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: Willie Green
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:34:24 PM PDT
by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: george76
Amtrak loses bucketloads of money every day. The national rail system operates in the red, generating huge losses and has done so each and every year of its existence. Thats over $1.2 billion in losses for the most recent year, putting the overall tab for this antiquated, bloated and inefficient system around $50 billion dollars of taxpayer money. Who is John Galt?
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:36:00 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: napscoordinator
US Bus travel has the lower class or student stereotype. I wouldn’t say that Amtrak does. In the NE corridor, everyone rides. Rich Joe Biden used to ride Amtrak daily between Delaware and DC. On the long distance trains, the coach cars seem lower middle class but the sleeper cars seem upper middle class.
The simple fact is that Unionized, Government run Amtrak is labor inefficient and cannot compete despite its’ fuel efficiency.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:37:28 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: george76
We already have an interstate highway system. Our country is too geographically large for passenger trains to make sense, except for perhaps regional travel. Even then, why ride on a damn train when you can use your car?
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:38:00 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: george76
20 years ago we rode the amtrak train from Jacksonville to New York city.
It was an “interesting” 13 hour ride.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:38:08 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Proud to be a (small) monthly donor.)
To: Palter
Sounds like a great place for a road with places to pull over and appreciate it.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ilovesarah2012
Public Transportation.
Because nobody wants to die alone.
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:40:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: MSF BU
Yes, and if jammed a a fifth of our population into an area the size or Oregon trains might makes sense.... The UN has a plan to concentrate our population. So, it will make sense.
To: Balding_Eagle
To make that happen all they would have to do is charge the real, unsubsidized, price per passenger. Somehow to the libs it's fine to heavily subsidize cattle car transportation for the masses but the free market price of gasoline for personal transportation is way too cheap. Heck, LaHood says $9 gas would make our roads really safe as no one would be driving.
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