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[quote user="henry6"] Sam1, I don't agree with your assumption that the key point is how Americans prefer air and personal auto over train.  You can say that simply because that is, for the most part, all most Americans have to chose from.  If there were a viable, well scheduled, marketed, frequent, reliable, and well priced service be it bicycles, buses, rickshaws, trolley cars or medium or high speed trains, it would probably be deemed successful.  I don't know where you get this asumption, but where I am I hear so many people wisihg they could ride a train to there from here, they'd prefer it to the current driving situation and air schedules and prices.  And, though I don't ride Amtrak great distances, I ride a lot of commuter operations which customers use for regional rail transportation and not for going to and from work.  We have so much available, so little understood, in our vast transportation system that any one and all of us are right and any one of us and all of us are wrong.  One thing that is clear is that our transportation system needs comtemplating, reviewing, studying, reinvesting, reinventing, too! [/quote] Following WWII U.S. railroads invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new and refurbished passenger train equipment to offer people a rail choice.  It would be the equivalent of billions today.  Most communities had or were near towns and cities with frequent service.  Unfortunately, it did not work.  People in droves chose cars and airplanes. Intercity passenger rail is a different kettle of fish than commuter rail.  Nevertheless, according to the DOT Annual Statistics release, 88 per cent of Americans commute to work by car.  A variety of factors contribute to this pattern.  One of them is the choice that Americans have made.
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