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]Originally posted by DSchmitt "If a store is only open one hour a day, it won't sell enough product to make costs or profit. If it's open 3 hours a day it moves enough product to maybe break eevn. If it's open 24 hours it moves a lot of product." False: If this was true every store would be open 24 hours a day. Longer hours mean higher costs. If the business is not there, the extra hours cost more money than they make. Even is business is good the aditional costs may exceed the aditional revenue.I didn't say you have to be open 24 hours to make a profit. Walmart is though. I think you get the drift in terms of service. Even when trains were the best transportation alternative (the alternatives being stage coach, wagon, horse or walking) many routes did not have the ridership even close to justifingy the cost of running a train and even full trains were and are often overall money loosers. So we should have had Amtrak in 1930? "As for America being too far flung in the wild west and there is no need for the service I must ask then why was an Interstate Highway run out there?" While highways do cost money to build and maintain (as do railroads) the majority of the cost is paid by user fees (gas tax and other truck/auto related taxes and fees). The cost to the owner (government ) to operate highways is extremly low. There are no locomotives and cars to buy and maintain, no crew, no ticket sellers, , no dispatchers, no equipment cleaning and repair people, etc. to pay) The users pay for their own vehicles and operate them themselves. The automobile provides much more flexible service to the user than any train system could. Whatcha gonna do when the gas runs out?] "I'm getting older, and I don't have the energy it takes to put in a 9 hour day driving the Interstate. I live far enough away from any airport to make air travel easy. Besides I don't think much of casting myself off into the blue yonder on a firey fusalage. Everyone that I've ever spoken with on an Amtrak long distance train says the same thing. They wi***he service was a little better, and that there would be more trains. They weren't railfans. they think trains are a viable alternative." I find it hard to believe that your brother couldn't have arranged to go to a closer airport. By highway I can be to either of two different County airports in 10 minutes or less, a regional airport in 40 minutes, or an international airport in 2 hours. I don't live where you live. Air France had no direct service to South Bend, 40 miles away. The airport itself was a hell to endure. Trips don' t start and end at the train station or the airport. Even in the pre-automoble days a road ststem was necessary to get to the train station. Thanks to good roads and the autmobile its easier than ever before. I live two miles from a railroad line on which Amtrak runs but It's over 50 miles to the nearest train station.Well, now you get my point about frequency and service. Two locals, one express. Mitch
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