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I think its time to stop the long distance routes
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mr. Toy: [QB] Polarbear, first let me say that I am as distressed about the personal insults as you are. They have no place here. Arguements either stand on their own merits or they don't. Insults neither reinforce nor discredit ideas, so they have no place in reasoned debate. I see where you are coming from, but if your interest is in applying funds to where they are most needed, you won't really gain much by killing the long distance services. Corridor services are capital intensive. The NEC alone sucks up 74% of Amtrak's subsidies. The 16 long distance trains combined require only 18%. To say that nobody is lining up to ride long distance trains is quite untrue. I stood in a very long line at Denver Union Station in order to board the California Zephyr a few years ago. These trains often sell out, and as David Gunn has increased capacity by returning wrecked cars to service, and opening up space in transition sleepers, ridership has also increased and the trains still sell out. This sugggests that demand for long-distance services exceeds Amtrak's current capacity. Over the last year or so long-distance ridership has increased, even as ridership in the NEC declined a bit. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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