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Kummant interview, New York Observer 8/13/08
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PullmanCo: [QB] Gee, some things I've been saying for years. No, I'm not Mr Kummant: What about doing away with some of the cross-country routes? That's an old debate. I think reasonable people can debate that. And let me start on a couple of different directions. One is do we believe that our overall offering and our overall network is exactly what we'd like it to be? Of course not. We'd like to have better stations, newer equipment, better on-time performance. [b]The reality is, and I've said this before, if you were to blow away all the long-distance product, you would never get it back.[/b] One of the things I strongly believe is we are on a path, and if you look at, by the way, the ridership on the long-distance products, they're up--let's see--in July, they were up 12 percent year over year. So we're seeing dramatic growth in long-distance, which, in many cases, runs along what we would call the corridors of the future. You look at the Sunset West--you've got Phoenix to L.A. In your and my lifetime, there is going to be a serious high-speed or near-high-speed product offering between Phoenix and L.A.; it has to happen. [b]And one of my arguments would be if you take all of Amtrak's long-distance product away, you'll eliminate the remaining vendor base; you'll eliminate facilities; you'll eliminate the workforce. It will be that much harder to get it back.</b> [/b] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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