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[quote user="jeaton"] Well I am sure glad you set me straight on the whole situation.[/quote] Glad to help the cause of the cognitively challenged.[;)]  [quote]A couple things I don't quite understand.  If ridership has gone up to the point that capacity is being used up and fares have increased so much, why isn't money being spent to increase capacity?[/quote] Because passengers don't make money for any railroad, even in passenger train paradise.  Passenger trains can use up capacity to the hilt and not make a dime for the operator or the infrastructure owner. [quote]  Wouldn't the private companies make even more money if they had the capacity to increase their business?  Further, if the companies could make even more money hauling freight, why are they ignoring that business?[/quote] They're not.  Read bl's post regarding the freight situation.  If not for the French closed access [}:)] blockade, more long haul freight companies would be banging down the doors to get a piece of that potentially humoungous pie. [quote]By the way, the Tories are the political conservatives of the country.  The people and politicians of your state are considered very conservative.  Fascists?[/quote] The Tories aren't any more conservative than the old pre-Reagan wing of the Republican party, which by today's standards would be considered very liberal.  That was back in the days of the Nixon/Rockefeller corporate liberalism, not the grass roots Christian/Conservative/Small Business aspects of today's Republican Party.  That Rockefeller wing was more in tune with propping up large monopolistic corporations in distain of small business and individualism, and thus at the expense of economic innovation.  So yes, I consider the Rockefeller *conservatism* as nothing more than corporate fascism, certainly not in the best interests of most US citizens.  And the Tories don't engender anything that would have widespread public benefits of true social conservatism. The only reason the British press/public considers the Tories as "conservatives" is that the opposition party, Labour, is even more liberal.  Such is the political landscape in Europe. Perspective, Jay, perspective.
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