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disapointing editorial, we need to privatize amtrack
Much of the increase in traffic is solely due to folks taking the Acela on the BoWash corridor. This should have been divided up along time ago and given over to the state transportation authorities or private operators. I am sick of subsidizing the two people who take a train from Wichita to Reno when I buy a ticket to go from Metropark to DC.
>These are boom times for Amtrak
Is this guy on crack? That boom is probably the red ink hitting the floor.
Where’s the security on the trains??? I saw ZERO. They had better address this lack ... or they will have a Spain on their hands... mark my words.
High-speed trains may not be necessary.
Altering the timetables might help. For example, if a route drops off five people and picks up two new passengers at an isolated rural station but experiences significantly higher passenger movement at an urban station, does every single run on that route really need to stop at the rural station?
Eliminating the five minutes of dead time spent at stations with very little passenger movement, several times over, on particular runs of a route, will give you that extra fifteen minute savings, without "billions of dollars." Such a move might even save some fuel!
Another reason why the United States is the world's only super power: the power of the brains of her citizens.
I would really like it if a non-subsidized railroad could get me and my vehicle from Cleveland, Ohio to Orlando, Florida in 6-8 hours at a price competitive with the airlines. That would be wonderful. And, I would bet that such a railroad would be profitable.
It’ll never happen, though, which is why I either drive or fly (reluctantly).
If I were a bidness traveler, going between the larger cities in the Northeast, I’d sure prefer riding the train over going on an airplane. Especially nowadays with all the delays in flights for weather, etc. Also, riding a train gets you right into the heart of the city, not way on the outskirts where you still have to get an expensive cab to get into town.
The main thing it can do is suck up tax dollars while providing marginal benefits.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
amtrak is just another pork barrel project.