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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (143789)	9/9/2008 4:19:18 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 361296

Gas prices drive millions in US to public transit: report Tue Sep 9, 1:09 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Millions of Americans ditched their cars and rode public transportation in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2007 as high petrol prices continue to eat a hole in their wallets, a report showed Tuesday. Between April and June, Americans took 2.83 billion trips on public transportation compared with 2.69 billion in the same three months last year, the report by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) showed. "We've seen this huge surge in gas prices and people have said: 'You know what? I have to find a way to save money,'" said APTA spokeswoman Virginia Miller. "What's happening is, we're seeing a change in the travel behavior of Americans, as more and more realize that taking public transportation is a quick way to beat high gasoline prices and save money," she added. >>.............................. Mean while John McCain and his agenda on Amtrak Boston.com Staff July 1, 2008 By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist Train travel is finally becoming a third rail of politics. The first one to fry over it might be John McCain. For years, McCain, in the comfort of cheap gasoline for autos and airplanes, made Amtrak a personal whipping boy. Despite the fact that governments in Western Europe and Asia zoomed far ahead of the United States by supporting high-speed trains to relieve congestion, promote tourism and now as we are coming to know, save the planet, McCain has spent considerable capital in denying the passenger rail system the capital to modernize. In 2000, when he was chairman of the Senate Science, Commerce and Transportation committee, McCain killed $10 billion in capital funding for Amtrak. He denounced Amtrak as a symbol of government waste, claiming, "There's only two parts of the country that can support a viable rail system - the Northeast and the far West."