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Tale of the tape: Amtrak is more comfortable than airlines
Last week I traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss the state of the airline industry in a public meeting at the U.S. Department of Transportation. I got there by Amtrak. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If only the US could develop a high speed and more reliable rail system like Europe or Japan. Only bad thing would be that it would probably put all the regional airlines in the Northastern corridor out of business.
We could....But who is going to pay for it?
How about Europe since it was us that built theirs after WW2.
Yeah..They can start paying us back a portion of all that foreign aid we've been giving them since oh 1945.
Oh, all the countries where we have military installations which guarantee their ability to continue to exist and prosper? They can pay us rent.....<LOL!
Oh, all the countries where we have military installations which guarantee their ability to continue to exist and prosper? They can pay us rent.....<LOL!
Looks like it's developed to me. It's more a matter of makeing it a priority and scheduling. If you look at the NEC as some here call it, we have 1 route between DC and NYC. Every train stops at the same stations. why not have one train stop at some and the next train stop at others. I know not everyone wants to get up before breakfast and everyone has their own time table, but we can't keep running things at a 50% loss. It was reported for one N. Central transit system that for every dollar paid to ride, it cost the States'taxpayers another dollsr.
Acela and the NEC regionals turn a profit.
I guess they do. They charge a lot of money for a trip to the in the NEC. If I don't need my car, it's about the same cost to take AMTRAK as drive. Airfare is less expensive but the airports are by necessity either a long way from your final destination and require expensive ground transport or as new phrases describe it, 'you can't get there from here', meaning you have to go to a remote airport like Detroit to get a flight to Upstate New York and you pay for it in time and money. Other than the NEC I've been advised not to use the train from DC to Florida, an overnight train.