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gfjwilmde: If passenger rail is such a desireable mode of travel, why is it then that it cannot sustain itself?? Why should I, living over 100 miles from the nearest staffed Amtrak station where I one can even hope to buy an over the counter ticket, be forced to subsidize (through taxes) a passenger system that doesn't serve my needs? Why should the policy of a foreign nation who's physical size is suffuciently small that any rail journey can be completed within one day, have any bearing on what this country "should" do? I'd "like" to keep passenger rail afloat,...but not if it's gonna mean an increase in taxes, my plate is already full, in that regard..... Admittedly, I am somewhat jaundiced, because when Amtrak dropped the Broadway limited, they stopped serving my community. You can call me selfish, but from that point in time on, the concept of Amtrak funding became one of "my having to pay, so that someone else may ride",...and that doesn't make me very happy. A common argument to my posture seems to be that since I'm subsidizing the Air travel industry, and the highway system, why should I care if I support rail as well? Well, the answer to that one is really quite simple,...the town where I live has Highways, and has an airport....so I might actually use those services, and derive some benefit... not so with Amtrak... Next question?
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