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[quote user="SFbrkmn"] Rep. Mica knows better than what he is trying to doll out to the public on pasgr rail. The fiction coming from him is once govt is out of the psgr business that private industry will step up and run the service as a profit business. This concept has not  worked anywhere. If money were to be made in this the freight carriers would have never exited the business 40 yrs ago. Be carefull on what one wishes for. Even if Amtrak were to become a private operation--many routes would be closed down, fares would increase a large percentage. Amtrak is not perfect by any means but like it or not tranpportation, like education health and defense of the country are all responsibility of government. Our country needs a general across the board transportation policy of which the day that happens is when the Red Sea will part.[/quote] Why does the country need an intercity passenger rail system?  Especially a skeleton long distance system that is used by approximately one per cent of those who travel between the cities served by the long distance trains. The U.S. should develop passenger rail in relatively high density, short corridors, where the cost to expand the airways and highways is prohibitive.  But to equate passenger rail with defense, education, health, etc. is a bit over the top.
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