Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Thanks for posting this and the map! The US would be a far poorer, more wretched place if it lacked even the skeletal intercity rail service we currently possess.

Amtrak made quite a transition from an outfit using private railroads’ hand-me-downs to using its own equipment. Much of what it had built is aging and needs replacing with new stuff.

Thanks for including the map! I don’t think most people know or appreciate the quantity or quality of passenger rail service we once had. Your map not only shows some of the routes that are still there, but also the numerous routes discontinued after the Post Office made a DeJoy-like “reform” and moved the mail off the trains. People should think of the mail on the rails in Britain and France and ponder.