05-11-2009, 12:06 PM
eightyeightfan1 Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:All of this leaves me wondering why passenger rail service works so well all over the world except in America...
Americans love thier cars. Short sightness of local governments.
Until last summer when gas reached over $4.00 USD per gallon, no American who owned a car,would be caught dead riding a train. I bet those who said that before, are now leaving their cars at the station.
With the short sightness of local governments, turning old un used right of ways to walking trails, and wondering how now they can get commuter rails back today, its no wonder pasenger service is lacking here in the states.
Odd, because the preponderance of opinion thus far is that the railroads themselves do not want relatively unprofitable passenger service.