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Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal |
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Posted by Nilet on Sun Mar 19 20:52:13 2017, in response to Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal, posted by pragmatist on Sun Mar 19 20:01:36 2017. If Joe wants to stretch for the advanced topics, he should consider this:Railroads are currently making profits. Which means that all the taxes and alleged airline subsidies that supposedly give them an unfair advantage haven't stopped them from running freight. But as long as they run freight, they need tracks and signals, which means most of the infrastructure is already there and already paid for. Airlines need to pay rent to use airports, but passenger trains receive a massive "subsidy" because they use infrastructure that needs to be paid for whether the passenger trains run or not. Yet passenger trains have been almost completely unprofitable since the 1950s (and probably earlier). Airlines continue to fly, but private passenger rail was kept on life support until 1971 and allowed to die because it was so unprofitable it nearly took down the rail freight industry with it. |
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