AMTRAC runs daily between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. It, too, is mostly empty. The automobiles on Interstate 5, running nearly parallel with AMTRAC, move faster. Three people in an automobile can travel more cheaply than those same three people could riding AMTRAC.
Well the facts are that Amtrak carried 1,196,483 passengers in Washington State in 2008, and 813,753 in Oregon the same year.
So obviously those trains aren't as empty as you say.
I don’t give a sh*t about your facts; my own eyes tell me your ‘facts’ aren’t the whole story.
And I wasn’t the only one to point that out.
Mass transit projects cannot pay for themselves and are a net drain on tax revenues.
"...Well the facts are that Amtrak carried 1,196,483 passengers in Washington State in 2008"
3,200 a day. Whooo hoo! A small town school bus company does that. Would we care if such a small company went out of buisness? No. Then why would we care about an equally small, low quality, tax eating, union paying loser rail road company?