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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] While I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Resor, and do not want to argue with him, he is using the same data used by many others to promote the NEC versus the rest of the system: Passenger-units rather than passenger-miles. It is also worth asking, what would the NEC ridership be if there was only one train a day and it went through in the middle of the night? Also, Federal Transit Administration funding is still Federal Tax money pulled from the country as a whole. There should be no fight between proponents of long distance and corridor services. It is a form of cannibalism at the end of which all rail service suffers. We dod not see any such fights between proponents of vvarious forms of air service nor of Freeway versus non-limited access highway proponents. NEC imporvements help the east coast long distance trains, at least. The various california corridor state funded projects have helped the Starlight / CZ in the areas where they run. To approximate a quote by one fo the founding fathers, if we do not all hang together, we shall certainly all hang separately. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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