Now I know why Amtrak will fail......(long) (1 Viewer)

[AjayM]

Of course you are aware that this would basically cut off rural america from any travel for people without a car.

So now you are saying these people do have cars. And there must be a train station in every rural place, right? I used to live in a semi-rural area and there was no train station, it was just about 2 hours away (the airport was closer BTW). And there was a huge number of directions I could drive that would put me farther away from that train station (or any other for that matter). To the point that I am closer to a few large state and private schools than I am to the train station.

And if these people are so poor that they can't afford this car out in rural nowhere, how can they afford the $200 round trip ticket on Amtrack let's say 3 times a year (start of school, holiday break, end of school), and then do it for 4 years? The money to buy those train tickets will buy more than enough car for the would-be destitute college student to get back and forth.

But you also acknowledge bus transportation, which does go lots of places trains don't for a lot less money. So why exactly is tax money going to bailout Amtrack?

Andrew

 

[Ben Menix]

Where is this rural area where no one owns a car?
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[Carl Johnson]

Sounds like a fairly accurate description of Afghanistan to me.

 

[Ben Menix]

I don't doubt that, but Amtrak doesn't serve Afghanistan. Maybe we should sell it to them?
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