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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by arbfbe They know if it is abandoned it will never come back. If they just keep it limping along then there will be a base to build upon. [/quote] Personally, I suspect that if Amtrak ever did "go away", the high speed rail snake oil salesmen will come crawling out of the woodwork... Looking for, of all things, a public infusion of funds, to make their dream happen......wadda ya know? just like deja vu, all over again. The prospect of HSR has festered up in the local paper here a few times, and the pattern that seems determined to repeat is usually along the lines of some private entity that wants to make it all happen,. but who first must fish out of the public the extent of state and local contribution that might be available,...of course,.. without the private entity bothering to put on the table just how much of an economic commitment they would contribute as their share. the commitments they seem to be willing to make extend to a willingness to spend as much of the public's contribution as possible to make it happen, and to control the farebox (big surprise, huh?) In a way, the demise of Amtrak might ease the way for some form of HSR entity to get off the ground with their plan,...since at least then there would be a void to be filled. Whether or not that would be a "good" thing, I have yet to make up my mind. The proposals that have been vaguely outlined for my locale in northern Indiana, propose a HSR corridor in one of two possible locations... One coming right through my own town, with the alternate being considerably out of the way. They seem to be wanting to fi***he publics willingness to commit to funding the local share, without bothering to disclose which of the two routes will be the likely one built... There's just a taint to the smell of that, due to the expectation that the public will commit without receiving any commitment what so ever if the route to be built will touch their comunity, or not.. "pig in a poke" is the way it looks to me..
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