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Washout forces California Zephyr detour through Wyoming today
Let me guess, the passengers between Denver and Salt Lake City get to take the bus? Shows how critical Amtrak is to the overall transportation plan. It isn’t. Never was. Never will be. Every place Amtrak goes, there is a pre-existing road already bought and paid for. There are probably several bus companies
willing to take over once the unconstitutional government monopoly is out of the way.
Absolute nonsense. How is the CZ supposed to go through a wash-out/rock slide. Of course it’s a bus!
Carl Fowler
Have fun on the bus Guse
Please, Mr. Guse from Illinois, let us know how you feel about the Illinois Toll Highway Authority’s recent near-doubling of tolls in light of the fact that the bureaucratic organization was supposed to disappear in the 1970s after the initial construction bond issue was paid off by the tolls. Bonus points if you can name any city served by the Zephyr between Denver and Salt Lake City without Googling an Amtrak route map or timetable.
As a kid went to see my Grandparents in Evanston, Wy which is the first (or last) in Wyoming. Always went down to greet 103 & 104 City of SF and City of LA. Rode them many times from Chicago…it was not a scenic ride except when you left Evanston heading for Ogden and going down through the canyon and that was beautiful
Believe it not, flash floods, forest fires, avalanches, rock, and mudslides happen routinely in the mountains closing both roads and railways. Today, for example, US 24 near Leadville is closed as is CO State Highway 133 near Carbondale. Those “bought and paid for roads” will be hosting no motorized traffic (buses) for a while. I’ll be happy to see the CZ return to its regular DEN-SLC route, whether it is an unconstitutional monopoly or not.
If you have to ride on a bus you might as well torture yourself in a coach class mini seat in one of those crowded flying egg crates called an airplane.
If you have to ride on a bus you might as well torture yourself in a coach class mini seat in one of those crowded flying egg crates called an airplane.
several bus companies willing to take over, delusional.