by Gilbert B Norman
...to plop or get off the pot.
From Hyatt Regency Atlanta (waiting on late Dinner guests - so what's new):
Here is the open content column appearing at Mr. Frailey's blog;
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Here's my response:
From Hyatt Regency Atlanta (waiting on late Dinner guests - so what's new):
Here is the open content column appearing at Mr. Frailey's blog;
http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey ... mtrak.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Here's my response:
Mr. Frailey, your final comment rings the best. It's time to recognize that the LD (Interregionals if you wish) were to have been gone starting during '76. The '79 Carter Cuts started the process, but waylaided until tje '96 Clinton Cuts. But all since then have been the '04 Bush "prunings".
It's time to accept "the party's over". These LD's pay the Class One's some token payment hardly compensatory to the opportunity cost the Class I has lost owing to the train they cannot run. And further, as
Precision Railroading becomes more accepted, that Amtrak will cause more interference than previously.
The so called "Essential Service" cry by the advocacy community can easily be satisfied with busses at far less cost. There is not, unlike Canada, a single Amtrak station inaccessible by highway.
All told, time to order up the Adios drumheads and allow Amtrak to concentrate their efforts where rail transportation can be meaningful - the Corridors.