I'm sure the advocacy community cheers when they learn of this
Huffington Post material.
Fair Use:
While rail advocates have long called on the U.S. to invest in train infrastructure and commit to building a world-class, coast-to-coast, environmentally friendly passenger rail system, the funding has yet to come. Flying remains the default way to travel between distant cities.
Some see a sliver of hope that this may change, however, as the U.S. grapples with both the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis.
For one thing, air travel suddenly looks a lot less enticing in the COVID-19 era. With social distancing nearly impossible at 30,000 feet, anxieties are high and passengers eye each other skeptically, worried that every cough or sneeze will spread the coronavirus. And the pandemic has dealt the aviation industry a catastrophic financial blow, grounding thousands of planes and leading to pay cuts for many of the roughly 715,000 people it employs in the U.S.
Even if not said, the
freelance journalist author, obviously holds "make 'em run more trains". But to do so will require dedicated passenger ROW's much as exists in the Corridor and with Utah Transit. But so far as imposing upon the industry to run more passenger trains over their existing property simply represents a "taking". As more roads adopt "The Gospel According to Yager", otherwise known as Precision Railroading, the impact of any such "taking" will be harder to absorb.
"One a day", even if they wish it could be gone, but over the past fifty years, the industry has become Kubler-Ross Phase V "Acceptance" on such. Any more intrusions, uh "not too sure" on that one.