Jon Radon
Marc Hedlund“There’s no time to call lots of consultants to chew on the end of their pencils. We don’t need more studies. What we need is someone to take the study that was finished three or four or five years ago and say, ‘Now we have the money: Let’s do it.’” #Trains #Tågskryt 🎁⛓️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/inside-amtrak-s-75-billion-plan-to-revive-us-train-travel?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY4OTQyOTA4MSwiZXhwIjoxNjkwMDMzODgxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJSWFNPVEFEV0xVNjgwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2MzE5RUU4MzM2MjA0QzM1OTdFMzAxM0Q4RkQ1NEFCQiJ9.3-dmdlsH5umBLQMr3hfsUuCNqpa8dpm_i6rZS0PypJ8
SmokeyGeo@marcprecipice rail is not a good fit for the US: improvements on the northeast corridor make sense but $75B is completely out of scale for a system with $4B/yr revenue. It would be pouring money down the drain for sure.
For short distances like Boston-NY, my family can’t afford the $200 one-way fares: we take the bus at $50. For longer distances, the plane is faster.
See: https://stevenrattner.com/article/dont-overdo-amtrak-joe/
Peter Merholz