{"id":2763,"date":"2022-12-08T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2023-11-23T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:34:46","slug":"national-passenger-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2022\/12\/08\/national-passenger-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"National Passenger Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is pretty much spot on:<\/p>\n

Amtrak should build a good train<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Amtrak released their new vision for passenger rail expansion in the United States<\/a>, and I don\u2019t really know what to say except that it sucks. They\u2019re proposing incremental expansion of a national network of slow, infrequent trains that I guess will serve the needs of weirdos and hobbyists who want to ride a train from Birmingham to Shreveport or from Athens to Fort Wayne via Columbus but serves no particular transportation purpose.<\/p>\n

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I get the politics of this idea \u2014 spreading a lot of money around to a lot of different places and making modest upgrades to existing legacy rail lines and thus avoiding any difficult engineering problems or potential land use conflicts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just want something big to happen with our national rail system. If I could wave a magic wand we\u2019d nationalize the railroad right-of-ways (like a public utility) and begin upgrades for electrification and higher-speeds across the entire system. The only point of disagreement with the Slow Boring post I have is that connecting smaller places with better service will help them survive – and I think that\u2019s both better politics and economics than assumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is pretty much spot on: Amtrak should build a good train: Amtrak released their new vision for passenger rail expansion in the United States, and I don\u2019t really know what to say except that it sucks. They\u2019re proposing incremental expansion of a national network of slow, infrequent trains that I guess will serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}