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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Milwaukee-Chicago??? What do you want? That business is up by 12 percent for the year, is looking at about 230,000 passenger round trips, and the people who can use it from Milwaukee to Chicago save at least thirty minute for the trip. [/quote] That's exeactly my point. Despite almost 25 years of promotion, $2+ gasoline prices, 6 trains a day in each direction service, excellent end-point connections in Chicago, and allowing for seasonal and daily variances, each train is hauling an average of only about 100-200 passengers. That's equivalent to 1 double deck commuter car on Metra or assuming it's not gridlocked, maybe 30 seconds worth of traffic on I94. Again I'm not suggesting paving it. A thousand passengers a day is enough to continue the service, but not nearly enough to spend a couple billion turning it into a high speed rail corridor - Catch-22
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