thant's because you can't. I tried it when I was in DC. The problem is that they leased (not sure if this is the right word) out their tacks to the freight companies. So what happens in practice is that if the passenger train falls even a minute or two behind schedule it no longer has right of way and has to yield to all freight traffic. After explaining this once or twice to an unsympathetic boss (as I arrived hours late) I gave up and went back to driving in.
I have also talked to people who tried to take a train into San Antonio and ran into the same problem. They actually arrived two days late and they were just livid. I thought about taking a train to New Orleans when I went last month. It seems that to get about 1500 miles east of Albuquerque I would have had to spend several days going first to either Chicago or Los Angeles. But the heart of the problem here is the insistance that this infrastructural system must be self funding, leading to the leased tracks, leading to huge disincentives for passengers. Dana > Amtrak? I don't think I know anyone who has taken a non-municipal train > within the past thirty years. I know Whoopi Goldberg doesn't fly, but > that's about it. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243233 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
