Well, what’s going to happen now that reactionaries in the House have seen fit to cut funding for food service?
Well, what’s going to happen now that reactionaries in the House have seen fit to cut funding for food service?
Well, what’s going to happen now that reactionaries in the House have seen fit to cut funding for food service?
Well, what’s going to happen now that reactionaries in the House have seen fit to cut funding for food service?
While I agree that there’s always more room for improvement at Amtrak, I have generally found their service any where from satisfactory to very good. Before people complain about Amtrak and government service generally, tell me how you feel about the service you are getting from such “free enterprise” entities as Comcast, Time Warner, and certain airlines. Spirit is known to be particularly bad (I’ve never ridden them) and based upon a recent experience, Delta’s customer service has sunk to a low I haven’t seen on Amtrak in years!
Can we cut Congress’s pay until they improve? Cutting Amtrak’s budget will not stimulate any improvement. This is analogous to someone going into the ER bleeding to death being told they can’t have a blood transfusion b/c they are losing too much blood.
Time to cut Amrak loose from the Federal teet and let it survive in the market. If the public actually supports passenger rail, like many of you claim, Amtrak should have no problem surviving. Megabus and Uber seem to do just fine without government support, because people actually want and use them.
The republicans in the Iowa legislature doomed the Iowa City route not Tom Latham
I wonder what Mr Aldinger’s point is to be repeated so much
These jerk won’t stop at anything to dismantle Amtrak.
Mr. Nichols, how do you figure Uber and especially Megabus (and BoltBus, Dattco, Concord, Greyhound, et.al) don’t have “government support”? Their success is entirely due to their unlimited access to public streets and the interstate highwy network. Mr. Nichols, do these companies design, build, operate, or maintain any of that?
Let’s either charge the bus companies what it really costs the public to maintain the local roads and interstates for their huge and very heavy vehicles or ban them off said roads and force them to acquire property and DBOM their own intercity highways and stations. Then we’ll see how well they do when saddled with those costs.
The low-coat bus operators can be that ONLY because they are at the “teets” of federal, state, and local road agencies that provide them with rights of way they have no responsibity to take care of.
Mr. Nichols,
Let Megabus build their own highway and let’s see how many can afford the fare in the “free” marketplace.
In the Northeast corridor, Amtrak has to pay property taxes on the tracks it uses. I don’t see any truck or bus line paying property taxes on the roads because they were built by the taxpayers. The only thing close is the occasional tollroad they might use.
Shame on you Rep. Paul Broun. You will not be getting my vote next election.
Who pays for the roads and highways Megabus Bolt Bus, Uber and these other fly by night bus companies operate on? Hell, when you drive your car on these surfaces, that ain’t for free. Obviously, you don’t give a rat’s ass that Americans WANT passenger trains, NOT cramped buses!
Congress acts kindly before elections. Huge surprise.
Good news, even so.
I’m ashamed to admit that Rep. Broun represents my district (Notice that I did NOT say he represents me. I disagree with almost everything he says or does.
He was soundly defeated in the primary in his attempt to win the Senate seat held by Saxby Chambliss.
Maybe, at long last, the people of Georgia are sending him a message.
I certainly hope so.