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Re: Amtrak expensive now???? Yeah really?
Author: BOB2
Date: 08-29-2015 - 13:45
America is suffering from a shortage of trains, rail line capacity, train cars, and engines. America is not suffering from a shortage of rail passengers willing to pay even higher prices to use trains.
And these "customers" are willing to do that, despite what I would call slow, infrequent, expensive, overcrowded, and often just a generally poor quality of service. Note that Amtrak is on course for yet another record year. And, all of this is being done at the lowest real inflation adjusted subsidy per passenger, in the entire history of Amtrak.
Now, just imagine what the demand would be, if we actually funded and ran even a "good" quality passenger rail service......?
And these "customers" are willing to do that, despite what I would call slow, infrequent, expensive, overcrowded, and often just a generally poor quality of service. Note that Amtrak is on course for yet another record year. And, all of this is being done at the lowest real inflation adjusted subsidy per passenger, in the entire history of Amtrak.
Now, just imagine what the demand would be, if we actually funded and ran even a "good" quality passenger rail service......?
