RE: Amtrak's high-speed rail vision for 2040: New York to Washington in 96 minutes
How much money do we have to waste on passenger trains
before people figure out they're a complete waste of money.
Forty-five million people live along this corridor; only 30,000
people per day ride the current train. People don't ride trains.
People only want trains because they think they will get you off
the road and out of their way. If passenger trains were a good
idea a private company would be doing it. Taxpayers should not
have to put billions into subsidizing ticket prices on a losing idea.
I hope the republicans will keep as much money as possible
away from these boondoggles.