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I travel fairly extensively on business and havefor years. Air travel is fine for long distances, but if you figure an hour to get to the airport, and our to check (and be checked) in, a two hour flight, and an hour to get to town at your destination... I would much rather be on a train for four to five hours. As A passionate train lover, stretch that to six to seven hours in some cases. There is a lot of travel that falls into this category. The problem, as has been pointed out ad nauseum, is the cost. Need I remind that the airlines have been bailed out constantly with our tax dollars? Why, because it is considered by the powers that be that air travel is necessary for the good of the country. Well so is train travel, in my view, and if those bozos in Washington could abandone tunnel vision (no pun intended) for a few moments, they might have a chance to get off their false alternative and do something that makes sense on rails. Think of the national savings in terms of lower back disorders if we could get from Houston to Dallas or San Antonio and back by train? And we are talking about three of the, what is it, seven largest cities in the USA. No, they would rather tear up the highways again to solve a traffic problem that won't be solved anymore by the time the project is finished. This whle subject makes me see red. Commen sense is so far down on the political list of priorities one can't help but wonder how anything manages to function at all. Do I support AMTRACK? In a word, yes. Railroads built this country - freight and passenger - and passenger service will continue to help it grow if the pols will only stop tearing up unused rail to make room for more pork. E-mail me if you want to know what I really think.
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