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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard You'd never get support to nationalize the freight roads, the stockholders in most class 1s are at last getting a profit from their investment. The railroads themselves would form such a lobby group as you have never seen before. And I doubt very seriously the goverment could affored to buy all the tracks in the first place. While roadways, streets and the interstate system do need maintainance, you would not belive the amount needed for a railroad track. Just keeping all the switches greased would require a small army. But making a nationalized passanger system out of amtrak make sense, and paying freight roads a flat fee for every usage of their tracks, along with some incentive to expedite amtrak trains across their system would work. Heck, we taxpayers have subsidised airlines with free property for airports, no taxes on said land, financial aid/bailouts for years, and outside the rail industry, no one seems to balk. The cost of the land for a airport must far exceed any depot built, and when it wants to, the goverment can sell almost anything to the public. We sure didnt seem to care when the feds handed billions over to the airlines after 9/11, why should we mind the goverment paying for and running our passanger trains? And with the goverment running it, the cost to the rider would at some point come down, if only to make sure there were enought passengers to justify the trains in the first place. Trust me on this, the one thing goverment employees are really really good at is keeping and protecting their jobs. Ed [/quote] Ed I agree with so many of your comments, not just in this forum but also in the other forums where you have posted. You have shown wisdom and understanding. Would you run for president please. We need your common sense approach in Washington (and I am sure Amtrak would get better funding). Look at it this way You certainly couldn't do any worse or screw things up any more than they are now. The American people need someone like you to fix our broken country. I vote for ED for President.
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