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To: tejek who wrote (358805)11/16/2007 1:14:05 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573902
 
>The Lautenberg-Lott Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act, designed to completely overhaul the system, may reach the Senate floor this session. The legislation would commit $10 billion over four years to develop high-speed, short-haul rail corridors modeled on the European city-to-city routes. They could run between Washington, D.C., and Charlotte, N.C.; Portland and Seattle; Chicago and Detroit; Miami and Jacksonville, Fla.

It's not enough. We should be spending $100 billion on this.

-Z



To: tejek who wrote (358805)11/22/2007 11:49:53 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573902
 
I have nothing against trains. I normally drive when I go to New York, but when I picked up a new car there I took Amtrak.

I'm just against high per passenger mile subsidies, and running routes that don't have a lot of demand.


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