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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal It's real simple: Go to a search engine (Yahoo, Google, etc) and type in "Amtrak market share" and see what comes up. Just because it takes a Wendall Cox to use the DOT studies to support his views doesn't delegitimize the DOT study, does it? Facts are facts, no matter the source, and frankly you are a bit off saying such people hate rails. Reformers are not the enemy, they are your only chance at salvation for retaining a national passenger rail market in some form. By demonizing them, you come accross as hyperbolic and irrational, and if every Amtrak supporter is like you it won't be long until the nation gets so tired of the same old same old that they end up killing the whole thing for everyone, and then passenger rail in any form is a thing of the past. [/quote] I wouldn't in my wildest dreams characterize Cox as a reformer." He's a destroyer. Even James Coston - a true reformer - said Cox - appointed by Newt Gingrich to the Amtrak Reform Council shut Amtrak down - only wanted to shut down the system, not improve it. As you advised, do a web search on Wendall Cox. See all the arguments he uses to shoot-down passenger rail - short distance, corridors, commuter, and LD. He hates trains. You can't have a rational discussion with someone that wants to destroy you. If you don't know that, you haven't been to the issue long. The far-right "think-tanks" - yeah, right - that you cited are also off base. No matter how you characterize him as positive, 'taint such an animal. He like Sen. John McCain is one of the biggest Amtrak haters of all time. Using Cox to argue for reforming Amtrak is like using only Howard Dean's arguments when arguing about the Iraq war.
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