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If people are not riding the trains, one has to ask why? I notice that some station on the Amtrak network only get trains 3 times a week! People can't rely on them. To encourage ridership, every town on the network needs at least one train a day in each direction. Obviously, for communters, you need a much higher frequency. Aberystwyth is a small (14 000 pop.) town, but we get about 10 trains a day during the week. If Amtrak is to be scrapped, then who would take over? The reason Amtrak was formed, as I understand it, was to remove the 'burden' of passengers from freight railroads. But they don't want it! What about this: keep Amtrak as a bsic service, but allow other players to enter the field to run their own trains. This would require clarification of the track access position (and fees), as well as improvement to the lines. I don't agree that the long-distance trains should be eliminated - after all, in the immediate aftermarth of Sept. 11, they were the onlty way for many airline passengers to get home (or near home). Jason.
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