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<div>One would have to go through the financials for each European, Japanese, and Chinese rail systems to determine the average station cost per passenger.  It would be a tedious task, assuming the information is available. </div> <div></div> <div>Getting the cost data for the stations served by Amtrak would be a mind blowing task. For example, in Texas, Amtrak does not own any of the stations that it serves. They are owned by the communities that are served by Amtrak's Texas trains or a freight carrier.  One would have to go through the financials for every community served in Texas, as well as those for the freight carrier owned stations, to find what rent, if any, Amtrak pays for the use of the station.</div> <div></div> <div>I took a quick look at the OECD statistical extracts to see if anything popped up for the cost of passenger rail stations.  In fact, I did not see any data tables for passenger rail.</div> <div></div> <div>However, readers may be interested to learn that The Russian Federation, which is not an OECD country, had 186 road deaths per million inhabitants in 2010. Korea, at 114 deaths, had the highest for the OECD countries whilst Iceland had the lowest at 25. The U.S. came in at 106. This does not have anything to do with passenger rail, but it is no further out in left field than many other posts.</div> <div></div> <div> </div>
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