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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 4020North: [QB] Perhaps why so many train riders don't contemplate expanding Amtrak substantially has to do with things having been the way they are for so long. For decades we've seen the number of places served by Amtrak slowly decline. If things stay the same for a long time people start to think of the status quo as rooted and unchanging. So when an organization like NARP comes along with a plan to expand a national passenger train network that many assumed was going to fade away, it's easy to think they're going in the wrong direction. A lot of the ridicule that Amtrak is subjected to has to do with its tenuous hold on having train service at all. The poor or non-existent service at present is easily exploited as an excuse to get rid of Amtrak altogether -- to say that Amtrak today is such a small part of long-distance travel that who would feel the impact if it were to disappear? But certain aspects of the situation, including continued ridership and support of Amtrak long distance trains, lead me to think Amtrak is at a sort of low point, rather than being something that doesn't make sense on its way out. Problems from which the absence of passenger train service results may weigh more than the burden of keeping Amtrak, though Amtrak is talked about more often. Our transportation system may be said to be unbalanced by way of over-reliance on highways and aviation. At some point, the efficiency of using trains to carry people over long distances will probably be more recognized and put into use than it is today. That is why to me an expanding Amtrak looks more likely than an Amtrak that goes away, and why NARP's goal for the end of the next forty years seems realistic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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