They cannot operate at a profit…. They just cannot do it. They lose money every minute they exist. Horses and Wagons would serve us better than the bureaucracy of AMTRAK
“Why can’t America have great trains?” asks East Coast writer Simon Van Zuylen-Wood in the National Journal. The simple answer is, “Because we don’t want them.” The slightly longer answer is, “because the fastest trains are slower than flying; the most frequent trains are less convenient than driving; and trains are almost always more expensive than either flying or driving.”
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