The CEO of Amtrak Thinks Americans Are Ready for Trains Again

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7. Long-Distance Travel: Amtrak is a skeleton of a skeleton

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The problem with long-distance trains in the South and in the trans-Mississippi West is that Amtrak’s system is a skeleton of a skeleton caused largely by right-wing-driven funding cuts.

There are a lot of routes that ought to have trains but don’t, (no) thanks to right-wing fibbertarians in Washington and red-State statehouses.

I personally think that Tulsa and Oklahoma City ought to have passenger rail connections to St. Louis. There ought to be a Dallas to Houston train, not just serving the end-points, but the towns along the way. A Dallas-Houston Denver train is a train might be again.

And discontinued Amtrak trains like the Pioneer and the Desert Wind.

EDIT: But guess what states like Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, and Idaho all have in common?

If you guessed Republican governors and legislators, you guessed correctly.