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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by oltmannd</i> <br />[I said early 70s. The map sprouted like crazy under Carter. Try 1972, not 1979. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />This is fallacious. How did the Amtrak map "sprout like crazy?" <br />There have never been enough rail routes to serve the population (i.e. no Texas-Denver service, or Dallas-New Orleans, or Memphis- west). <br /> <br />The system was even more skeletal after Carter's reign. <br /> <br />Amtrak was a small system during all of the 70s and got even smaller at the end of the decade with a few trains here and there added (Pioneer, Desert Wind) but soon those were ordered to stop running due to politics, not ridership. <br /> <br />I've told you WHY ridership hasn't kept up with population growth. <br /> <br />No money, no equipment, no routes. How hard is that to understand? <br /> <br />
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