Originally Posted by
jamawani
And, yes, I have written my two senators and representative asking them to withhold support for Amtrak.
Transportation dollars could be spent far more effectively on intercity buses - which are also disappearing.
And provide service to far more locations at a fraction of the cost.
COVID relief money (from the US Transportation Department website):
Airlines: $14,000,000,000
Amtrak: $1,690,000,000
Intercity buses: $0
Estimate for 2019:
Amtrak: 6.5 billion passenger-miles
For-profit intercity bus common carriers: 117 billion passenger-miles