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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. There need to be vastly more routes.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Mar 6, 2021, 02:36 PM

Mar 2021

I'm in New Mexico, and my nearest Amtrak station is in Lamy, about ten miles south of me. It's easy to get there. One train passes through, now only three days a week, I believe. It goes west to Los Angeles, and east eventually to Chicago, passing through southern Colorado and across Kansas along the way. If I want to take Amtrak to Denver, I have to either go to Los Angeles or Chicago first. Truly stupid.

I love the train. In recent years I've taken it several times and would take it a lot more if it were even a bit easier and could get me more places.

What Amtrak wants to do is a good start. I hope it happens.

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Tulsa makes a try for service once a decade and then seem to forget all about it. Runningdawg Mar 2021 #1

There need to be vastly more routes. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #2