[RITSlist] From your Moderator regarding Off Topic Messages

[Dick Tinder]

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Please do not use ritslist for discussion of railroad ( or other )  
subjects unrelated to the Rock Island.

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DT


On Jan 24, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Kathie and Denis Long wrote:

> This response always comes up when talking about AMTRAK to railroad  
> people.
> While you might like to use 'chump change', that doesn't accurately  
> describe
> the amount spent in tax dollars, on AMTRAK.  AMTRAK would not be  
> with us if
> it were not for tax subsidies.
> Cities with large commuter populations can and do support that kind  
> of rail
> transportation.  Most of us are not going to opt for it on business  
> trips,
> nor a for quick visit to grandmother to develop her care plans.
> There is always much emotion present in this discussion.
> Denis Long
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ritslist-bounces at thunder.simpson.edu
> [mailto:ritslist-bounces at thunder.simpson.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Kline
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:59 AM
> To: ritslist at simpson.edu
> Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Plans are under way to extend Katy Trail to  
> KC area
>
> Because we've spent billions of public dollars on highways, and chump
> change on anything else. Experience has shown that in places like
> California and Illinois, where public investment is made in passenger
> rail, people will use it. The numbers grow every year.
>
> That wouldn't necessarily mean that rebuilding the RI in Missouri is a
> good idea. It simply means that "few use Amtrak" is both overly
> simplistic and inaccurate.
>
> LaVerne Andreessen wrote:
>> people use highways, few use Amtrak.
>

Dick Tinder
dick.tinder at simpson.edu