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How does that subsidy look per trip, though?
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
How does that subsidy look per trip, though?
- zdragnar 5y agoAmtrack moves just shy of 17 million passengers in a year. Airlines in the US do that in 8 days. That's works out to roughly 45x as many passengers, with only what, 6x the subsidies?
- pastage 5y agoHow does that translate to carbon foot print per dollar.
- xyzzyz 5y agoMost Amtrak trains are diesel powered.
- afiori 5y ago> and that doesn't account for all the local and state funds used to subsidize airports. Or Department of Transportation spending... probably this counts for at least a few billions
- xyzzyz 5y agoI think if you don't look at raw passenger figures, but instead at passenger-miles, it becomes even more lopsided in favor of airlines.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoAmerican rail is apparently heavily biased towards moving freight. This may even be a good thing, but it'll throw out the numbers if you compare train to car or plane and don't include it.