(erielack) Re: [NYC-Railroad] New Passenger Routes --- What is the answer?

["JACK5008_@_webtv.net"]

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Hi Phil,

You make some very good points.

It was not my intention to completely convert the entire system to
privatization at this moment. My intention is to try to experiment in
another way with lines that have not yet materialized.

With all its slick tricks, why should NJTransit run a service from the
Poconos to New York when its mandate is New Jersey? Why do we have
subsidized passenger service for gamblers going to Atlantic City when
the casinos should pay the bill? Why does the government subsidize all
transportation facilities except railroads unless it operates it. If
some railroads were able to get some of the deals that Amtrak did, some
might be still running passenger trains.

 Why does nobody see the logic of an interstate railway system with
private operators?

The trouble is that the railroad passenger business is not a business
with blInkers on its eyes being led by big brother.

All this leads to is lets look to alternatives. We are not doing this.
If we don't, their will be no Amtrak or no long distance passenger
trains.


As for your comment on some in Britain wanting renationalization of
passenger trains, look at what party is in power.



Jack Grasso


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