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The sad truth is I have more milage at this web site recently then the the last three years on Amtrak or the MBTA commuter rail. the flat economy is cutting ridership about 6 % below the modest projections for the Acela. <br /> <br />I say draw straight line between Boston and New York an build a real highspeed line. This is what happend on the TGV and the bullet train in Japan. <br /> <br />So we have "sic trainsit" while our highway bridges look like thry are made out of plaster of Paris, airports are overcrowded and planes are late and stuffy. <br />Airlines are loosing money, merging, running old planes into the ground, making travelers a little stressed. In the meantime we are making people that don't care for us very rich selling us sweet crude so we can carry on the dream that maifest destiny is not dead. We have a transportation problem that extends beyond Amtrak. <br /> <br />For Amtrak if not now when? If not here where? The Acela service should have at least one non-stop Boston to New York run making the trip in under three hours
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