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tweet by amtrak ben: i think we should build high speed rail next to freeways only because it would make drivers feel like complete losers all the time

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79 points

That works. The local L trains running along side the highway in Chicago got me, seeing 5 trains roll by while barley moving in bumper to bumper gave me the final push to covert to public transit

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The number of people I’ve met who will never take Amtrak again because they saw one delay, but will sit in gridlock for an hour each way to/from work to go 10 miles without blinking an eye drives me batty

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I’d take Amtrak in a heartbeat if meaningful service actually existed.

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Yeah, there’s precisely one (1) train per day leaving North from Atlanta, and it departs at 11:30 PM. It’s a fucking joke!

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We’re the end of the line but we finally got service back where I live (we had it… In the 80s or something?) we have a morning and evening now and it’s really good for heading north to DC and nyc.

I agree we need to get that network expanded though, we have the rail for it already

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9 points

You’re moving barley? You can’t move barley on a passenger train, you need a freight train for that.

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5 points

I mean you could, but it would be very inefficient.

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7 points

Everyone fill your pockets up!

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