{"id":50187,"date":"2015-04-27T20:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/why-cant-we-have-a-great-passenger-train-system.html"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:21:32","slug":"why-cant-we-have-a-great-passenger-train-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/why-cant-we-have-a-great-passenger-train-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#039;t we have a great passenger train system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we&#39;ve decided that trains should be for-profit, and then removed all the taxpayer resources that airlines and road transit get access to. And we&#39;ve ensured trains will be unreliable in schedules by making them second-class citizens to freight rail &#8212; then wonder why nobody wants to use them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/magazine\/amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-20150417?utm_source=pocket4'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4sU7xwG_JaFQgfEFmY7OieCiRy4Upz_eoFW00flgpSQX05xvq7EC2HK8twTvmMdR4hkOCsqLSc5s4tY_pnP7Q5RaHLBoqiX_B0I7DyH7BL1P6GPurLOjtZ85zHxVBZF3kdTIt7pdd8HIpBEl5CorxgcEQC09abE=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/magazine\/amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-20150417?utm_source=pocket4'>How Washington Derailed Amtrak<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA Washington mystery.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QD6Vv5dLPgb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we&#39;ve decided that trains should be for-profit, and then removed all the taxpayer resources that airlines and road transit get access to. And we&#39;ve ensured trains will be unreliable in schedules by making them second-class citizens to freight rail &#8212; then wonder why nobody wants to use them. How Washington Derailed Amtrak A Washington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/why-cant-we-have-a-great-passenger-train-system.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why can&#039;t we have a great passenger train system?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,376,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-taxing-spending","category-traveling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/rt-_youhadonejob-yeah-cos-thats-how-trains-work.html","url_meta":{"origin":50187,"position":0},"title":"RT @_youhadonejob Yeah cos that&#8217;s how trains work","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jan-15 3:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @_youhadonejob Yeah cos that's how trains work View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B8dLmzPIUAADHa0.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B8dLmzPIUAADHa0.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/B8dLmzPIUAADHa0.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32938,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/subways-and-trains-have-an-effect-on-traffic-far-beyond-their-ridership.html","url_meta":{"origin":50187,"position":1},"title":"Subways (and trains) have an effect on traffic far beyond their ridership","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Mar-13 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Subways (and trains) have an effect on traffic far beyond their ridershipBecause, essentially, they are the ones most likely to instead have been utilizing the most crowded and heavily-trafficked roadways. 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