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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (858046)5/18/2015 12:18:08 PM
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>> Many of the lines that get minimal traffic should be closed and they could use that money on upgrading the North East corridor and any other line that might actually make sense to run.

I heard some commentator on TV yesterday suggest that the profitable NE corridor be privatized then allow the others to be shut down, which probably makes sense. But the better alternative would be to privatize NY-Washington and then see if any private operators are willing to buy any of the other routes.

The Sunset Limited that runs from LA to Orlando loses nearly $300/passenger. This is stupid. No one is going to ride trains this distance other than maybe retired people who want to see the country. The one way fare is roughly the same as a flight, then you have the loss on top of it.

I don't know that the one route (NY-DC) is the ONLY one that could work; but it is self evident that a lot of routes are total wastes and need to go.
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