St. Louis to Chicago is a very, very flat 260 miles. To buy an Amtrak ticket it’s $36-43 and takes 5h.
I’m traveling to Italy soon and a ticket from Genoa to Rome is €35, about the same distance between a sea front and a mountain range, and takes a whole hour less travel time.
Amtrak is in desperate need of public funding and freight rail needs to be prosecuted for blatantly ignoring laws that give passenger trains the right of way on rails.
The high speed rail the states keep rejecting the money the fed allocates to the rail projects? Wisconsin rejected 450mil the feds slated for rail lines there.
Graft. Graft and incompetence.
We’re funneling money into this bullshit while neglecting high speed rail.
St. Louis to Chicago is a very, very flat 260 miles. To buy an Amtrak ticket it’s $36-43 and takes 5h.
I’m traveling to Italy soon and a ticket from Genoa to Rome is €35, about the same distance between a sea front and a mountain range, and takes a whole hour less travel time.
Amtrak is in desperate need of public funding and freight rail needs to be prosecuted for blatantly ignoring laws that give passenger trains the right of way on rails.
The rails need to be nationalized. Amtrak is no better suited to manage passenger rail transport than the freight rail companies.
The high speed rail the states keep rejecting the money the fed allocates to the rail projects? Wisconsin rejected 450mil the feds slated for rail lines there.