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AMTRAK: Do you support it?
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Those who wi***o kill Amtrak have done their very best to underfund it. They will probably get their wish when the bridges fall from a lack of maintanence on the NEC. Amtrak has to purchase/lease specially made electric locomotives because the electric lines of the NEC have 3 different voltages. Any other country with high speed rail would have already made necessary changes to operate on only one voltage. <br /> <br />Yes, Fort Wayne is a small city. However, in your presentation Los Angeles isn't. If I were you I would check the airfares from say Santa Barbara to Fort Wayne to understand what I meant about flying to and from small cities. Obviously, you haven't a clue..... In my internet search, Expedia, the cheapest fare is $570 on the redeye with connections in Los Angeles and Chicago for a 9 hour flight later this week without a Saturday night layover, short notice. Ahhhhhhhhhh, big cities have cheaper rates than smaller cities and towns........ Makes you wonder what the price of a flight from Salt Lake City to Fort Wayne is....the cheapest I found was $530...... Just living in Los Angeles provides airfares $200 less than living in Salt Lake City or Santa Barbara....... We can play this game forever...... Notice that those opposed to Amtrak always use flights connecting the big cities..... never the smaller cities in both cases....
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