On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:24 -0400, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Loveless > > On 5/23/09, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I like railways travel. It's very civilised - by far the most enjoyable > >> > way > >> > of travelling long distances. > > > > Obviously, you have never experienced Amtrak - the airline of the railways. > > It's not that bad everywhere Amtrak runs ... > > Still, it doesn't make sense that every other country in the world seems > to be able to figure out how to get passenger trains to go where they're > needed, pretty much when they're needed, in a fairly efficient > expeditious, affordable manner, but we can't do it in the U.S.
We struggle here as well. Our State Governmments seem more intent on closing intercity passenger services than on promoting them. Or they make the timetable so inconvenient and so infrequent that few people bother. Tasmania has even managed to totally remove *all* of it's passenger services. There are 3 or 4 memorable long distance services in Australia but that's about it. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
