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One could carry this to the next step. Shut down the airlines and save me much more tax money. Out of the Department of Transportation's annual budget highways get $33 billion, airports $12 billion, and Amtrak might get $1.2 billion (last year $562 million). Keep this in mind when you protest against the pity sum Amtrak receivess. We could save at least ten times as much if we shut off the airlines subsidies. But I will agree with you about one thing. The Amtrak of today won't survive in the long run. A modern Amtrak running TGV high speed rail trains along a few corridors can compete with the airlines, for half the airlines subsidy. A high speed rail network connecting the four largest population centers east of the Rockies can compete with the airlines: New York City to Chicago, New York City to Miami, Dallas and Houston to Atlanta or Jacksonville, And Dallas and Houston to Chicago. A nice parralegram of four high speed trains capable of reaching the end of their legs in about 9 hours. Considering that the state of Texas Trans Texas Corridors plan quotes the cost of building electrified double track high speed rail lines at $20 million per mile, this 4,000 mile parralegram would cost around $80 billion. $80 billion is a little more than twice what the DOT spends on highways each year. Doubling this plan to include more mileage and destinations with branches off this main line of the parralegram would be nice too. If we are going to support Amtrak with subsidies, we might as well get a state of the art modern system. As it is today we are getting an aged middle of the 20 century system.
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