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

On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:28:00 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 5/31/2021 8:21 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:17:50 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 just conceded defeat again."
>
>Yes, you did.
>
>Now answer the question, faggot:  What is a "190 ride"?

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