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| Posted By: Wondering Posted On: Jan 8, 2009 Views: 360 | Rail travel Why thankyou for your kind comment realist, I have stacks of newspapers waiting to be finished. |
| Posted By: Not Now Posted On: Jan 7, 2009 Views: 401 | Rail At this point in time this would be a poor use of funds. There are many other things that need to be taken care of that we already have. We just raised taxes to pay for road repair. Lets start there. This would be a fluff cost paid by the many for use by the few. |
| Posted By: Realist Posted On: Jan 6, 2009 Views: 389 | Rail Travel Yes "Wondering" you missed something. Perhaps you should read the newspaper articles about rail travel before responding. It is "we" not "they" who want rail service to Ark City and other places. We've been asking them to bring it back for years. It was removed because without the kind of subsidies received by airlines and truckers, passenger rail service was no longer viable. Everyone wanted to drive their own car "we" guess. During the intervening years, the infrastructure needed to accomodate rail passenger service was allowed to deteriorate. Many miles of double tracks were removed and even freight traffic on the rails was badly hampered. It would not just be Ark City taxpayers who would pay for the rebuilding. It would be all taxpayers, at least in the wider areas effected, and it would be in partnership with government and BNSF and other companies involved in bringing rail passenger service back to our part of the country. If done, it would in fact connect to AMTRAK lines all over the US, where they now exist. Even though we're talking specifically about a train from Kansas City to Oklahoma City that travels through Ark City, one could get on the train at Ark City and make connections to travel from New England to Florida to California, etc. Perhaps the traveler needs to update "Wondering" and others what it was, what it is, what it could be and how it would happen, who it would benefit, why "we" should help pay for it. I'd like to ride the train again to and from Ark City. Wouldn't "Wondering?" |
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