Today 50 thousand people are killed on the nations highways. I guess it dropped this year people are driving less, to 35 thousand! Years go by and Amtrak kills no one. Except for bad drivers that pull out in front of their trains! Now the mail goes by truck, a three cent letter that used to be delivered by passenger train in hours goes by truck and costs how much? Overnight is ten dollars! Fuel costs are killing the post office, mail is snail mail.
@intercityrailpal Instead of having the income from the mail service our passenger trains lose money. All this because the highway lobby runs the transportation policy for the country. Instead of 20 mail cars on a trains we have 50 trucks with 50 drivers 50 fuel tanks. And the car behind the engine is a baggage car or your coach or sleeper.
Today 50 thousand people are killed on the nations highways. I guess it dropped this year people are driving less, to 35 thousand! Years go by and Amtrak kills no one. Except for bad drivers that pull out in front of their trains! Now the mail goes by truck, a three cent letter that used to be delivered by passenger train in hours goes by truck and costs how much? Overnight is ten dollars! Fuel costs are killing the post office, mail is snail mail.
intercityrailpal 1 year ago
@intercityrailpal Instead of having the income from the mail service our passenger trains lose money. All this because the highway lobby runs the transportation policy for the country. Instead of 20 mail cars on a trains we have 50 trucks with 50 drivers 50 fuel tanks. And the car behind the engine is a baggage car or your coach or sleeper.
intercityrailpal 1 year ago