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From: dnc@bonnie.UUCP (Don Corey)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: AMTRAK funding.
Message-ID: <711@bonnie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 12:09:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 12:09:20 1986
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>   Write your congressmen --
> despite its flaws, Amtrak needs and deserves all of the money it's got.  
>
> John Levine, ima!johnl

Why can't the fares support AMTRAK?  Could AMTRAK ever reach a point where
it could be supported by fares?

I have taken a number of train trips which I've enjoyed very much. I have
felt a little uncomfortable, however, that a lot of people, probably not
as well of as myself, were subsidizing my vacation.
-- 
Don Corey
AT&T Bell Laboratories
WH 2A-140 (201) 386-2349 ihnp4!bonnie!dnc