Why use the parasitic subsidized transport for the freeloaders?
Because my Girlfriend and I were tired of a 4 1/2 hour one-way drive, that three times in the last seven round trips we almost bought the farm, because of idiot drivers changing lanes into us, driving crazy, or driving drunk on i-5 or California HWY 99. Trips for which the cost of gasoline was 50% more than two round trip tickets on the train which took just 3 hours. . . Add to all that this trip was for the day before and after Thanksgiving where the traffic on those two freeways would have been an order of magnitude worse than when the idiots tried to kill us.
Besides, the Amtrak subsidy is probably now a lot less than the "bail-out" cost of all those incomplete "shovel ready" construction projects along California's freeways and bridges that were started— but no one ever seems to be working on—yet leave traffic flows impeded due to blocked lanes, k-bars, and unwidened construction lanes, that have been there for five years. . . No doubt waiting for Obama shovels.