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Amtrak doesn't need to advertise much, as their trains are running full..... maybe that's why they don't advertise much.... Of course, if the needed capital was expended to expand Amtrak's capacity, and modernize Amtrak with high speed rail.....Amtrak might have a larger ridership share..... Also, Amtrak doesn't have the same funding mechanisms as private business..... Amtrak doesn't have the capacity to sell $100 billion in bonds to build a sufficient high speed rail system.....its dependent upon the government to provide its needed capital funding..... or even $1 billion...... SO STOP COMPARING A FEDERAL SERVICE WITH A PRIVATE BUSINESS! This is as comparing apples to oranges as anything else mentioned above..... All forms of transportation is subsidized, Amtrak actually gets the small straw every year.... If you are really interested in cutting spending, cut something which gets a larger share of the federal transportation pie....like highways and airports..... The real truth of the matter is that most Amtrak trains are running a profit operationally..... it's the capital expenses that bring Amtrak into the red..... You say let Amtrak increase its prices to bring its capital expenses into the black.... I say okay as long as we also let the airlines and bus companies pay all of its capital infrastructure expenses too.... WE ALL KNOW AMTRAK IS AND WILL BE MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE THAN TRAVELING BY EITHER AUTOMOBILE OR AIRLINER! Amtrak is so underfunded capital wise that it leases just about everything..... I wonder how many airliners or truck/bus companies do the same..... Greyhound, the only national bus company which provides a scheduled service has been in bankrupcty court for years...... similar to many of the large full service airlines...... The only airlines turning a profit are the ones that have cherry picked routes which don't serve San Angelo or Abilene Texas.... As for the cruise lines, they are subsidized to by the feds, who built the ports, dredge the harbors, and man customs.....
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