Re: Amtrak Wants $75 Billion To Create More Money-Losing Routes

On 5/31/2021 8:03 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2021 18:16:04 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/29/2021 4:12 AM, Yak wrote:
>>> https://reason.com/2021/05/28/amtrak-wants-75-billion-to-create-more-money-losing-routes/
>>>
>>>
>>> But *this time* it'll work....really....we mean it!!!
>>>
>>> =====
>>>
>>> With "Amtrak Joe" at the helm, America's premier passenger rail service is going
>>> for broke with the release of its 15-year "Corridor Vision." The company's plan,
>>> which was published yesterday, calls for service improvements along 25 existing
>>> routes, the creation of another 39, and the expansion of service to 160 new
>>> cities across the country.
>>>
>>> To bring this vision into reality, the for-profit Amtrak is asking for $75
>>> billion in new federal funding and the power to enforce the prioritization of
>>> its own passenger trains' movement on tracks owned by private freight rail
>>> companies.
>>
>> The U.S. needs to abandon the idea of passenger rail service on all but a very
>> few routes:
>>
>>     Los Angeles — San Diego
>>     Seattle — Portland
>>     Washington DC — Baltimore — Philadelphia — NYC
>>     NYC — Boston
>>
>> That's about it.  Those routes make sense.  Nothing else does.
>>
>> I once took the train from L.A. up to San Luis Obispo — beautiful route, a lot
>> of it along the coast.  It's about 190 miles.  It took about six hours.  It's
>> about 3 hours by car.  I enjoyed the trip, but wouldn't do it again.
> 
> Prof. Canoza thinks he knows all about trains because he once took a 190
> ride?!

What is a "190 ride"?  <chuckle>

You fucked up again.