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[pyrephox]

Good lord, but commercial rail sucks in the United States.

Amtrak, why do you suck so much?

Also, how can you have ten routes in the south and midwest, and only ONE goes through any part of Tennessee, and that one doesn't go anywhere in the Southeast?

Waaa.

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[cpip.livejournal.com]

Amtrak sucks very, very hard. There is no longer a route to Louisville. The Pittsburgh-New York run -- a relatively easy run, one might think -- runs once per day and leaves at a series of inconvenient times. Of course, this leads to less people wanting to ride these rails; therefore there's no ridership and no funding to improve the service, and so it's a death spiral to the bottom.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

This makes me sad. It seems like train travel would be so much more comfortable than plane or car travel for long trips. But it's not much use if you have to fly to get to the station in the first place!

[cpip.livejournal.com]

It's also more costly, in some cases, than plane travel!

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

If they put the effort into making it more popular, then the price would come down! Besides, I'd put the extra money into being able to get up and walk around, have decent seats, etc.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Blame the various industries that bought up American rail to force people to drive (Ford) and lobbied for driving over transit (tire companies, concrete companies), oh yeah, and Nixon (or Reagan, tbh I'm forgetting atm) who put Amtrak out there as a further means of killing the rail system.

That it still exists is testament to the fact that people don't want to drive. :P

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

*grump* Sadness.