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

On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:46:56 -0700, Bill Flett <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 5/31/2021 8:35 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
>> 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"?
>> 
>> Ask these guys
>
>No, I'm asking you, because you're the stupid squat-to-piss faggot who wrote it.
>
>What is a "190 ride"?

Wow! Even these guys would think you are SERIOUSLY triggered there in
Sacramento!

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