No Trains to the races

Auto Club Speedway at Fontana, CA will no longer have Metrolink supply service to their NASCAR races

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=nascar_com-auto.club.metrolink.suspended-20100121&prov=nascar_com&type=lgns

Oh how tricky. Sell me a ticket letting me assume or actually promote the Metrolink option and then cancel Metrolink. Any bets that did not happen?

Does this seem analogous to Chicagolanders of Metra’s non-service to Arlington Park? That took effect a year or two ago IIRC, but I’m not saying I do recall correctly time-wise.

I don’t worry about there being a flawed or evasive explanation of that suspension so much as it was a offered as simple fact, a non-explanation accepted as pat by the media and apparently the populace too. I’m not trying to hijack this topic and am not going to infer motive or conspiracy; I just don’t know. Maybe somone here will. (And if it bears discussion, we should probably open up a new thread.)

“If we only had a lousy little grand, we could be a millionaire.” - Nathan Detroit__, Guys and Dolls__.

Apparently, the promoters couldn’t get enough people to buy a package which included the chartered train to and from the race track. Metrolink was not operating this service on its own initiative, they just provided the train for the promoters.

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Maybe promoters ran up against a confirmation deadline with Metrolink and did not have enough package ticket purchases. Around here most events lately are getting sold just days or even hours before an event.