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Originally Posted by Crawford
The long-distance routes are Amtrak's biggest financial burden. I think Amtrak probably needs to be split into two companies; one for the leisure routes, and one for actual functional routes, where timetables matter.
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Or congress can just pay the entire subsidy without complaint since dozens of rural seats even belonging to Republicans would be furious to see service cut. Maybe even appropriate some funds to improving service and reliability.
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Acela has assigned seating. I wouldn't take it otherwise.
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I am aware of this. Acela isn't the only service in the country.