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Not denying any of your comment but there are also geographic features? Even with perfect funding and management, it would still be the northeast funding the r
by woooooo 2y ago
Not denying any of your comment but there are also geographic features? Even with perfect funding and management, it would still be the northeast funding the rest of the country for amtrak, right?
- bobthepanda 2y agonot necessarily. the Midwest, for example, is roughly the land area and population of France. In fact, the TGV network overlays pretty well onto it https://preview.redd.it/8g59yft1lfs61.jpg?auto=webp&s=6ef0f3af746a007270e6171770d661d805b2215c https://preview.redd.it/8g59yft1lfs61.jpg?auto=webp&s=6ef0f3... The Northeast is simply the most profitable because it already had the most scheduled services, the highest speed services, and the most Amtrak-owned track when it started out. But most of the country east of the Mississippi and a few corridors west of it are pretty good candidates for decent, profitable rail service.