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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Your disagreement is duly noted with respect, Mr. Harris. Essentially, no one in the "mainstream" , is about to consider using Amtrak in the few overnight markets it serves (Chi to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Memphis; Wash to Atlanta, Savannah is "all there is') and nothing is going to make such a traveler voluntarilly consider such. We have a fly/drive mentality (my Sister regularly "drives in" from Greenwich to Manhattan - "it's so much more convenient, and what if I want to pop over to Brooklyn first and see any of the kids") and no one is going to change that. Residing in Chicago, and considering the only places away from a contiguous state I travel nowadays (I have been 3/4th of the way around the world and on the ground in all 50 states, but that was another life) are to visit family in the New York area or to convene with them in Florida, any Amtrak trip I take will involve use of an LD. As I have often noted here, my LD trips can be summarized as "more positives than negatives'. But what I am most concerned about as an industry observer of over fifty years standing, is that passenger rail, for which I have never "bought into' the Dr. Utt thesis of kill it all, is relevant to the 21st century travel needs - and that in my estimation means services where the average journey will be 200 miles and with a population base sufficient to support not less than 'six a day". It further means having an infrastructure that will not interfere with investor owned Class I roads from performing their role in our economy which is to move freight and in the process generate a return on investment to their stakeholders (disclaimer; hold BNI and NSC). All of the above means Corridors. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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