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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal This is what the pro-Amtrak crowd can't seem to get into their thick skulls. THE PRICE OF TICKETS TO RIDE AMTRAK DOES NOT COVER A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF IT'S COSTS, OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T KEEP BEGGING FOR MORE AND MORE SUBSIDIES. IF AMTRAK CHARGED A TICKET PRICE THAT COVERED IT'S OPERATING COSTS, I GUESS NO ONE COULD AFFORD TO RIDE IT. THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING! [/quote] Frankly, what this tells me is how much some have bought the highway crowd's BS hook, line and sinker. Amtrak covers 60-80% of its farebox costs. That's hardly insignificant compared to highways not even half, if you count ALL the subsidies - the hidden ones as well. Thick skulls? One could use the same "logic" against the highway and airline crowd that's always picking on tiny Amtrak. If Amtrak were done away with, there would be so much federal $$ we could pour into the highway system. Right. Like the $30 billion invested in Amtrak over the past 3 decades that Amtrak's "thick-skulled" critics keep hammering upon would only pay for the Big Dig in Boston. Not much else in terms of highway construction, which, by the way, individual motorists pay precious little in direct taxes for. Subsidies comparisons ARE important since it shows the ONE-SIDEDNESS of the "thick-skulled" Amtrak enemies that are "always begging" for less money for Amtrak.
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