Republican Study Committee: Cut ALL Amtrak and HSR $

[uptowngirl]

Thanks Lake!  I really, really want HSR, I would prefer to take the train over flying or driving (even across town!) I am hopeful some other entity maybe able to pull this off.

My comments as to the Amtrak website were specific to cross country travel, other travel options were much cleaner and easier to book on line. For instance from JAX to NOLA was easy enough, or JAX up North was easy enough. It is when you cross the Mississippi that things become complicated and the reservation system made no sense. I do not even mind switching trains, but that meant going from a cabin to a seat to a cabin to a bus :-(

[thelakelander]

Amtrak is a mess, if trying to go west from Jacksonville.

[BridgeTroll]

Based on the map HSR looks like it would work best with Chicago as the hub with routes to LA, SF and NOLA...

[tufsu1]

Based on the map HSR looks like it would work best with Chicago as the hub with routes to LA, SF and NOLA...

wait...are you suggesting that Chicago is the rail hub of this country? Blasphemy!

[cityimrov]

Chicago is under 17 inches of snow at the moment. 

[BridgeTroll]

Hish speed snow plow for that hi speed train...

[Doctor_K]

AMTRAK! AMTRAK! AMTRAK!

RIDE THE TRAIN
RIDE THE TRAIN
RIDE THE TRAIN

RED WHITE BLUE
GI ISSUE

This is your typical Amtrak advertisement and they completely miss targeted market ads in favor of generic one ad fits all advertising which I think is almost useless. Get on the air and tell us you can go from Jax to Tampa, or Miami, or Charleston, or Savannah, or Orlando (though for the life of me, I don't know WHY you'd want to go there). Tell me how much it will cost and when the train leaves, and where the stations are.

Do it on a bus bench
Do it on a match book
Do it on the Late Late show
But if you want to do it good
Do it like you should
Do it so everyone will know

OCKLAWAHA

Ride the train, ride the train
Anywhere I'm going I ride the train....
Sleepin' in a boxcar when it rains.
Ride the tra-a-ain, ride the train.

[Ocklawaha]

Amtrak map showing trains cut off during Amtrak budget fights as restored.


Amtrak map showing trains both cut off and being studied.

Now about that joke TUFSU, you are correct that Chicago is, was, and always will be the center of US long distance rail travel, but as you can see from the map, a certain city in NE Florida is Queen of the South!

OCKLAWAHA

[tufsu1]

no disagreement ock...Jax. and Atlanta seem to be the prime candidates in the southeast....but  I've heard some people say that Jacksonville can be a bigger rail hub than Chicago....and it seems really hard to believe

[Ocklawaha]

Hish speed snow plow for that hi speed train...

http://www.youtube.com/v/lio3btp_1Yk?fs=1&hl=en_US
Maybe so BT, but then again, maybe not!

OCKLAWAHA