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October 14, 2005
Why Train Travel is a Pipe Dream in America
The Northeast Corridor routes carried more than half of the railroad's 25 million passengers in fiscal year 2004, generating more than $600 million in ticket revenue.The chicken'n'egg problem of no service available/no customer demand in other parts of the country seems intractable to me. Here's the article, with some detail on the funding implications of the above.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 14, 2005 9:44 AM