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Don [:)] <br /> <br />As always you have your "ducks in a row". You cite fact and not fiction. Your opinion is based on facts and not emotion. I wi***he money spend on all forms of transportation would have been dolled out in equal shares. If that ever happens we will see a decline in the heavily funded air travel area and an increase in the lightly funded Amtrak. It is past time that the government gave Amtrak a more equal share and not the minuscule (compared to the other amounts given to air, and road) funding it receives. It has bearly survived, and some routes have not, because they are NOT given the funding necessary to provide decent service. Amtrak is using the railroad's track and should help pay for them. The incentives once offered by Amtrak for "on time" arrivals should be reinstated, thus providing a much better incentive for passenger train travel. But the funding isn't there and as they say "the squeeky wheel get the grease". So the paying freight customers get faster and better service than Amtrak. <br /> <br />Everywhere I go people are saying they will never fly again. NEVER. Yet they have precious little other alternative than to drive. Why, because Amtrak lacks the funding to provide service everywhere it is needed. And it is needed where there are no trains. If I want to go east or west and a train I must first to north or south all the way to Chicago or San Antonio. I cannot head directly east to Memphis, Knoxsville, Atlanta, Nashville or other cities east of me because their is no train. I cannot head directly west to Fort Smith, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, Phoenix, or Flagstaff because there is no train. If we had more trains more people would ride. But until Amtrak gets EQUAL funding like the other forms of transportation we won't see more trains.
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