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Just got back into Monterey after a nice trip back from Seattle aboard the Coast Starlight. I know there was some discussion in the previous post about that route and Amtrak more broadly. While this is intended as an open thread, I’ll take my publisher’s prerogative to add some thoughts on this, with the experience [...]
This week’s issue of the Sacramento News & Review includes an article discussing Sacramento’s frustration at not being included in Phase I of the HSR project: Even though the state’s high-speed rail system is slated to begin construction in about two years, it may not reach Sacramento for another 20 years, and even that isn’t [...]
A study that is getting a fair amount of coverage online today is that from the Pew Economic Policy Group, which shows Amtrak “lost $32 per passenger in 2008″. The full report breaks it down route by route, showing that only a few routes generated surpluses in 2008, including the only high speed rail route [...]
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