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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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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
I'd take Amtrak in a heartbeat if meaningful service actually existed.
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!
And I was laughing at CPPK for closing during lunch break.
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