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QUOTE: I don't know if they ever advertised faster times, but long ago passenger speed limit signs at the EJ&E crossing at Rondout, "reduce speed to 100MPH" suggests that may have been possible.
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz Riding the rails: February ridership jumped almost 12% on Amtrak's Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line, to 40,503 from 36,317 in February 2005, DOT rail chief Ron Adams said. In the first two months of this year, ridership rose 13%, to 83,227 from 73,762, Adams said.
QUOTE: I wonder if concentrating on faster trip time is really the most effective course of action. . . . Maybe there could be activities made available during the trip that would make the time spent on the train more attractive, be it treadmills, poker, or what
QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz Riding the rails: February ridership jumped almost 12% on Amtrak's Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line, to 40,503 from 36,317 in February 2005, DOT rail chief Ron Adams said. In the first two months of this year, ridership rose 13%, to 83,227 from 73,762, Adams said. As I showed in the first post, service seems to be excellent and a good value, if you use ridership as any indicator. Any other business I know of would be thrilled to have such a large increase in business. Why fix it, if it isn't broken?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 Would 100 mph on the former Milwaukee Road between Chicago and Milwaukee require ATS or something similar, with leading locomotives needing to have it installed ?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Paul Milenkovic QUOTE: I wonder if concentrating on faster trip time is really the most effective course of action. . . . Maybe there could be activities made available during the trip that would make the time spent on the train more attractive, be it treadmills, poker, or what I guess the traditional commuter train version of that is a club car where people can drink on the way home from work. A person has to wonder why people put up with such long automobile commutes, lumping through traffic, etc. Most people on this forum think that trains are the answer and feel sorry for the people stuck in traffic, but I think it is important to get inside the heads of people who rather like their cars. The Wall Street Journal had an article about Chicago Southsiders who have left their cars for the commuter trains on account of the Dan Ryan Expressway construction mess but long for their cars and would pay whatever money in gas in parking. The way I see it that for a lot of people, the ride, by themselves (the horror, the horror!) inside their cars is probably the only solitude and personal time they get all day, between the husband/wife, the kids, the boss, and the coworkers. Yes, they have to sit in traffic, and stop-and-go driving is stressful to many people (although just because you find it stressful doesn't mean there are a lot of people adapted to it). You have your own little personal chamber, customized to your taste in terms of clutter or lack thereof, you can listen to your favorite radio station or music tape or just turn the sound off. Compare that with a packed gallery car -- with 150 people plus in there you are not talking about a Superliner deluxe bedroom as a travel experience. Trains are kind of neat, and I love trains, but I have commuted on gallery cars to work during my summer internships and to class when in college, and well, it gets old after while. You are packed in with everyone with their colds and sneezes and whatnot, and nowadays, you have people on cell phones.
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