[madison10]

Wouldn’t mind trains if they were safer to ride, they seem to be plagued with safety issues.

[cripplecreek]

Personally I like train travel. That said, I like privately funded train travel even more.

[Clemenza]

As long as the government funds roads, they should fund trades, preferably at the lowest cost to the taxpayer.

I actually think the Europeans are ahead of us in terms of infrastructure privatization. It sickens me to see otherwise conservative folks coming out against allowing private companies to manage our highways, especially when said companies are controlled by "foreigners."

[oldtimer]

The dumbest thing that the US ever did was to let passenger trains get away from really mass transit.

[Red6]

Socialists LOVE public transportation.

[Right Wing Assault]

I will only be in favor of these if they give illegals free lifetime passes to ride on them. /do I need to put the ‘s’?

[MaxMax]

I like toll roads. once they sell the idea to the taxpayers, it never gets paid for.

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[Mr. Brightside]

What?

Willie Greene is not here to gloat?

[aposiopetic]

Amtrak, the passenger rail service that struggled for years to attract riders, drew a record 28.7 million in the year ending Sept. 30. That is 11 percent more than the year before and the sixth straight year that ridership has increased. Ticket revenue hit a record $1.7 billion, a $200 million increase from a year earlier.

Less than 60 bucks per passenger?

[sionnsar]

Slow trains are cost-effective in Europe. High-speed trains? Generally better to fly.

[PhatHead]

I guess I can understand ridership going up with air travel having become such a PITA. I used to take the train from time to time when I was in college, but needed to take combinations of bus and train to get where I needed to go. More recently (well, ten years ago) we took Amtrack from Dallas to Chicago just to do something different when the kids were small.

Considering that it was more expensive than flying, slower than driving, and the services was worse than the post office, I’m afraid I just don’t see the upside of long distance train travel.

Commuter trains in densely populated areas are different, and I have certainly ridden those in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and other places - and would again.

[Sir Gawain]

Can it work without my money? If so, then go for it.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Yeah...trains are fun.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-0YBr-6IxE

[Koblenz]

Well, if Obama sets about to get high speed rail funded in his first 100 days, and he wins reëlection in 2012, and then Biden wins twice, they might start building this high speed rail by the end of Biden's second term.

It's called environmental impact statement, and it's a bitch.

As an example, see The High Speed Rail Corridor. What is that, you ask. Well, it's a high speed rail line from Virginia to Charlotte. It was first proposed in 1992. Environmental impact statements were started in 1998. They'll be done in 2010. Then we can start building the damn thing.

[dalereed]

If someone likes trains, let them pay for them and not one taxpayer cent!

Thay are innefficient and go from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to go.

After I crashed my airplane I took Amtrack from L.A. to Oceanside and back twice and hope I never have to ride another one!

As far as their “bullet” from San Diego to the bay are, i’ll drive before I would ever take it, it’s only about 6 hours by car and you have your transportation when you get there and set your own time schedule.

[dalereed]

They should eliminate all passanger rail service and use the RR only for freight.

As far as i’m concerned all public transportation should be eliminated.