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<p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Sam1</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>The on-time performance record for a day or a week or a month is not a good incidator of how the system is performing overall.  One should look at a minimum of one year to identify trends, etc.</p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Sam correct as far as it goes.  The point is this is the way to run a passenger RR in this country.  One day at a time.  This is the way the NEC should run all the time.</p> <p>The freight RRs will not even put them in the equation.  Of course the NEC delapidated tracks will have delays but still this is an attainable goal for the NEC.  Note: definition  --  delipidated is track geometry not up to 160 MPH standards. [/quote]</p> <p>I did not understand you to mean that the NEC or the system should run every day as it did on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  You just mentioned the Sunday after Thanksgiving. </p> <p>No business entity should run on a one day at a time basis.  It should have a long term strategic plan.  One of the arguments made by Amtrak's supporters is that it needs to have a long term financial plan so that it can think beyond the end of the fiscal year, i.e. get the Congress to fund it for multiple years. </p> <p>As the numbers show, Amtrak's on-time performance records for each service line, i.e NEC, State Supported and Other Short Distance Trains, and Long Distance Trains is getting worse.  Not better!</p> <p>To be able to have every train run on time every day probably would require an investment in property, plant, and equipment that would not be justified by the benefits.  What is desired is an on-time performance record where the incremental increase in the cost to achieve it is equal to the incremental benefits. </p> <p> </p>
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