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House panel votes to cut Amtrak budget hours after deadly crash -- (link)

Posted by budice May 13 '15, 11:13

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/amtrak-budget-house-panel-crash-117904.html (www.politico.com)

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I'm absolutely certain that the one way to improve Amtrak is to give it less funding. -- nm - TWuG May 13, 11:47 1
- Naturally. Reduce the budget to $0 and accidents will vanish. Ta-dah! -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron May 13, 11:50
*blames Rep. Koch* -- nm - professor smartbrain si May 13, 11:25 1
- They hate it with a passion -- (link) - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:05
But with another 250 million dollars maybe the engineer would have only gone 90mph through the curve!!! -- nm - Ender May 13, 11:21 7
- Or they improve the condition of track to make it safer at a higher speed. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:53 6 1
  - Or implement measures that can automatically slow a train going above a posted speed -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:56 5
    - Or do so more effectively, at least - znufrii May 13, 12:04
    - Or maybe not everything is a reason why the government needs to spend more money. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:04 3
      - Except we're talking about a specific case here, not "everything" - znufrii May 13, 12:12 2
        
        A case that wouldn't have been fixed with another 250 million dollars. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:14 1
        
        Incremental improvements are better than none -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:16
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- You do realize that Amtrak makes actual money on the NYC-PHL-DC line right? Like profit, which has to subsidize all the other lines. -- nm - MDH May 13, 11:45 23
  - He realizes -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:02
  - Actually setting ridership records in California as well -- nm - budice May 13, 11:53 21
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      - His point was that *portions* of the system are profitable. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:10 14
        
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        So are roads. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:16 12
        
        L3. -- nm - Strongbad May 13, 12:35
        
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        See spamlets poll: 68% of road cost is subsidized. -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:21 7
        
        And how much are we subsidizing Greyhound each year? -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:24 2
        
        They pay for their own roads? - znufrii May 13, 12:28 1
        
        We ain't just paying from rails with Amtrak. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:59
        
        (But of course, you use roads so you don't mind) -- nm - ty97 May 13, 12:22 3
        
        You know there's a difference between railroad track and amtrak, right? -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:25
        
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        And for most people, they don't have any other option. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:26
        
        Except people, you know, actually use roads. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:18 1
        
        Good thing no one was affected when that empty train derailed last night then. - znufrii May 13, 12:19
      - Government subsidizes plenty of things that don't make money -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 12:10 4
        
        And most of them are more useful than a passenger rail train from Chicago to California that loses 67 million dollars a year. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:16 3
        
        But I *need* my train to Kansas City :( -- nm - Meg May 13, 12:25 2
        
        Oh sh!t, duck, here comes Meg. :) -- nm - znufrii May 13, 12:27
        
        If you're willing to pay another $187 per ticket it could break even. -- nm - Ender May 13, 12:27
- Starve the beast! -- nm - professor smartbrain May 13, 11:39
it looks like that's coincidental timing, not based on the news. -- nm - Max May 13, 11:16 1
- They specifically rejected a measure to increase funding proposed in response to the crash as well. -- nm - znufrii May 13, 11:55

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