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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by slotracer Nothing visionary here. It's 30 years overdue. Long haul passenger rail service was outmoded 40-50 years ago, Amtrack should have been tried for a few years in the 70's and if it succeeded at all fine, continue, but since it has been a miserable failure, it should have been cut decades ago. L [/quote] Miserable failure? By who? The idiots at the Heritage and Cato foundations? And other loud-mouthed critics who never lift a finger to IMPROVE rail service. All they ever do is take cheap shots at it. Their solution has always been to cut funding or elminate trains. Makes a lot of sense to me: to improve a situation, you;ve got to kill it before it grows... I guess this miserable failure won't last long, judged on passenger boardings. If you didn't hear the news, AMTRAK HAD RECORD HISTORICAL RIDERSHIP this past year. Those 25 million people must be losers who don't know any better. (I know and I'm ready to hear the nay-sayers blather on how that's not important and how it doesn't mean anything. One told me the facts don't matter. He wouldn't care if Amtrak increased its business by 100%. He was so prejudiced that no facts would change his mind. This so-called "railfan" hated Amtrak and would hear nothing that convinced him otherwise. Just tell that BS to some business that had record sales. Doesn't mean a thing, right?) Guess all those passengers that rode Amtrak this past year - and kept the LD trains full during peak seasons - should be herded into cramped airplanes or be forced to drive. Kind of like the backward-thinking president who supposedly wants to promote freedom overseas all the while restricting HIS OWN people's freedom of movement by offering them FEWER travel choices.
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