Even funnier: The following four people took a combined total of SIX
train trips in recent years. But listen to how they wax poetic over the
wonders of rail:
Twana Jones, 33, of New York, who responded to a Post poll earlier in
July in which people were asked about their travel habits, including
their attitude toward Amtrak, said she had taken two personal Amtrak
trips in the past few years, one of them as far as Kansas City, Mo. "I
enjoyed the trip, but it takes a long time," she said. Jones said Amtrak
needs to speed up the service, but "I certainly don't think they need to
cut any of the service. I want them to add more routes to it."
John Cebrookes, 57, a respondent who lives in Florida, said he enjoyed
two Amtrak trips over the past few years. "Don't cut them off," he said.
"Let the trains keep running.
Craig Smiley, 66, of Birmingham, Ala., said he took one trip on Amtrak
years ago to Detroit and found it "beautiful."
Ron Kessler, 55, of Boston, said he takes frequent trips to New York and
Washington and had tried the train once. "But the problem is they don't
run very often and you get out of a meeting early, you don't have an
option," he said.
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one
would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not
necessary that anyone but himself should understand it."
Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
