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[quote user="dakotafred"] Sam1 challenges others freely, but tends to see responses in kind as "personal attacks." "You don't know anything about me," is a frequent complaint. Well, we really do, thanks to her tireless autobiographical habit. We know, among many other things, that she is an opponent of the passenger trains she enjoys riding. What a wrestling match she must have with her accountant's soul every time she boards one of them and thinks of the taxpayer money she is costing! Not thoughtlessly, but with full awareness of what she's doing -- in cold blood, if you like. Masochism? Approach/avoidance? I'd never say so, lest I be accused of one of those personal attacks Sam1 deplores. [/quote] Here is what I was responding to: "Ha-ha, I think Sam ticked off most of the Congressional representatives for Texas and they put her on ignore."  The comment is absurd. It is typical of the comments made by the poster.   Had you read carefully my comments over the years, you would have noticed that I am not an opponent of passenger trains.  I have stated repeatedly that the role for passenger trains is in relatively short, high density corridors where the cost to expand the highways and airways is prohibitive.   Taking a train from LAX to San Diego or New York to Washington makes sense.  Riding a train from LAX to Chicao makes little sense. I have never waivered in this view.   By the same token I have argued consistantly against the long distance passenger trains, which carry less than one per cent of intercity travelers, lose more than half a billion dollars per year, and only serve a spotty portion of the nation's population. Notice, these number can be verified.
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