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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dmwnc1959: [QB] [QUOTE] I take Amtrak several times a year, and I can say I've never met a fellow passenger who uses rail as their "only" form of intercity transportation. Anecdotal, I know. And apparently your anecdotal mileage varies (Ah, come on, you've never hitched a ride with a friend?).[/QB][/QUOTE]I must be the exception to the rule. I really do not own a car and use AMTRAK and city bus service heavily to get around. I travel AMTRAK an average of 40 times a year, a lot of local mileage from SAL-CLT, and then public transport or by foot in CLT. I have purchased the NC Multi Rider Ticket on several occasions to help with cost of ridership. My few friends here in 'Mayberry' have family and lives of there own so I do not bother them with hitching a ride, and they rarely go out of town and almost never to Charlotte, and not when I need to, so AMTRAK is my only way to get around. The bulk of my friends are in Charlotte and they arent willing to drive 120 miles r/t just to come get me :-( I do see quite a few folks that travel often b/t RGH-CLT and back and know their faces from other local trips. The 'Piedmont' is our local version of a once-daily commuter train. I am sure there are unspoken numbers of folks in other parts of the country (other than the NEC) that rely on local and L/D AMTRAK services in one form or another as a primary means for intercity travel, whether for business or out of necessity due to a lack of any other convenient form of getting around (bus or plane). It would be interesting to see some statistics as to the percentages of folks that use AMTRAK as their primary form of intercity transport as opposed to the percentage of riders that use it only as a vacation. Any guesses? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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