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The railroads don't want it back....they were happy to unload it a few decades ago..... Yes, Amtrak isn't profitable, and will probably never will be profitable.... However, the only country in which there are a large number of people willing to end passenger rail service is US.....no other country even thinks about ending passenger rail subsidies, not one.... I read the other day that the federal government would have to spend $87 billion to rebuild and widen I-95 to increase its capacity to make up for the loss of the NEC's capability..... today..... not over a period of years...... Either we keep Amtrak and lose or don't keep Amtrak and lose..... As for buses, I have said this before and I will say it again, Greyhound has been in receivership for years. It has cut its service from several times a day in Granbury, Texas, to once a day, to once a week, and now doesn't serve this town at all.... A county of over 40,000 citizens... It seems Greyhound is only interested in running expresses and throughs along interstates, it has forsaken the small towns...... Its also difficult for a railroad to match the prices of airlines, which are all over the place. For example, it only costs a couple of hundred dollars to fly non-stop to Las Vegas from DFW, but if you wanted to fly to Reno instead, its eight hundred dollars with no non-stops..... Nearly 80 percent of the towns Amtrak serves have no schedule airline service.....over 80 percent..... That's the reason we need Amtrak.......
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