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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zephyr: [QB] I'll join Goduckies (though I'm actually more gobeavers) and not sing along with the choir. Though most on this forum (and others) have bestowed Gunn with sainthood, I'm not sure the statue of St. Gunn is worthy of dangling from the rear-view mirror of my 84 Ford F-150. Like Goduckies, I'm a frequent passenger on the Coast Starlight (as well as other Western LD trains). And I also have observed a steady decline in performance and service during Gunn's tenure. I know it's heresy around here, but my rides during the Warrington era (and earlier) were much, much better. And I haven't seen much "thinking outside the box" by Gunn (again, a point made by Goduckies). Nor do I see much of this heretical thinking on this (and other) Amtrak forums. With all the verbiage around here, the litany simply is: Gunn good, Bush bad, Mineta bad, Warrington bad, Republicans evil, and Mr. Plane and Mr. Car get more money than Mr. Train (sadly, no one ever mentions the unfairness to Mr. Stagecoach). The glowing eulogies to St. Gunn have been duly recorded. But my question is: Is Amtrak critic Joseph Vranich right? Are we just a bunch of rail romantics who want the taxpayers to fund our beloved 1940's era transportation technology forever and ever? Well, Vranich has me pegged. Unabashedly a rail romantic, the never-ending taxpayer subsidy would be cool. But I have difficulty defending it intellectually. For many of you, I know it's much more fun to bash Bush and bemoan St. Gunn's excommunication. But do you have any "outside the box" thoughts to change and improve rail pax? Or is Amtrak, just as it is (other than that pesky tithing problem), sacrosanct? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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