Posted on 05/16/2015 3:19:15 PM PDT by jazusamo
We'll raise the many more Billions we will need than he dares to guess to revive and rejuvenate the rails by selling leases to the the rights of ways, point to points to point - like the old airline CAB system.
Otherwise, get your Iman's hand outta my pocket, rent-seeker.
Dude! You could build a HSR in California for that !! Good god , voters, are you that stupid?
I don’t know if he is high but I understand he is under serious investigation from the justice department.
Okay the libs want to spend that kind of money we will spend it. We just have to tax the media the lawyers the unions and lot of other lib parties that have a lot of extra money laying around.
That’s absurd, but not because of us—because of the government. Amtrak’s fares are the way they are due to government regulations and the bizarre requirement of Amtrak having to “pay its own way” under that draconian regimen. (And they still have to “get” subsidized. Why didn’t Nixon deregulate instead of creating Amtrak?)
When the Metroliner first came out in the late 60s (operated by private company Penn Central), the fare was $12.75 for a journey from New York City to Washington DC, which is $81.55 in 2015 dollars. And this train that crashed is not even the Acela (which can be twice the old Metroliner fare).
The elites want their rail system but don’t want to pay the real cost of their travel.
Acela fares are actually double in real dollars what the Metroliner’s fare was in 1969. A nice legacy of ever-increasing regulation, and of course government ownership of the railroad it runs on.
That “real cost” would be way lower if Nixon would have deregulated the railroads in 1971. But on May Day of that year, he created Amtrak instead.
Don’t disputes that at all. However that does not speak to the real cost of operating the line and the percentage covered by the passengers.
Buses it is then.
BUY ALL OF THE RIDERS A BUS PASS
Chakra is not one of the numerator of our Representatives.
Chaka Kahn?...didn’t she pass on a few years ago?
I meant to type “more numerate” of our Reps.
Amtrak and the US Postal Service both need to get off the public dole.
Shut it down on the Fed level, let the States and / or Private Industry have a go at it.
Chaka Fatah??? What’s that???
The solution is simple...Scrap it...
I think private industry dumped it half a century ago.
Amen to that! :)
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