The One Tiny Law That Keeps Amtrak Terrible

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Writing by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy
Editing by Alexander Williard
Animation led by Josh Sherrington
Sound by Graham Haerther
Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster
Historic US rail map data courtesy Bygone Maps, LLC and licensed under CC-BY-SA (historic rail graphics correspondently avaliable under a CC-BY-SA license)
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Комментарии : 7 тыс.

@QueenetBowie Год назад

Just going to give a shout out to former Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson, who worked for free between 2017 and 2020 and came so painfully close to making Amtrak profitable…. Until Covid hit. The guy really tried his best to both improve Amtrak and prevent it from running at a loss and I was really rooting for the guy, Covid sort of threw things off though.

@piemadd Год назад

For those wondering, Amtrak's plans for new trains is called Connects US. It is a list of routes less than 750 miles in length, those which require state funding, which can be setup and run in a fairly short time frame. If all of the routes in this plan are created, Amtrak's daily trains will approximately double. A small step towards a much better rail system. Additionally, the FRA has created Corridor ID/Connect ID, a inquiry into new routes, some of which are in Connects US, which will be eligible for federal funding for startup costs. Those startup costs are most of the costs involved, so having those covered essentially guarantees a route will happen.

@shizzle7642 Год назад

With the nightmare that flying and airports have become, I hope trains make a huge comeback and upgrade the dated passenger trains

@geisaune793 Год назад

That opening line: "Imagine an America where you could just go anywhere by train."

@tvdan1043 Год назад

A little more than 10 years ago, Virginia got passenger service back to Norfolk for the first time since Amtrak's founding. It was one of those imperfect steps. The train left once a day at 4:50am. It had to leave so early because of track conditions along the route, slowing the train to a crawl in places. So after a couple of years of ridership growing slowly despite the early departure, the state gave the freight railroads (CSX and Norfolk Southern) money to fix the offending stretch of rail so Amtrak could run at higher speeds. The departure time moved to 6am and ridership grew so much so quickly that they added a 9am departure in 2019 (suspended during the pandemic, returned in late 2021) and a 1pm departure in 2022. That imperfect step a decade or so ago made possible the service we have today. But if we had to wait for it to be perfect, it would have never happened.

@Mullheimer Год назад

In The Netherlands people are really upset because 95% on time became 91%. Note: over 3 minutes will count as a delay. On the less busy stations the connecting trains will often wait.

@wingfanner

The thing I like about amtrak is that despite being a corporation, they really do seem to understand that their role is to provide a

@luipaardprint Год назад

As a European, being used to a 98% on time train service, I I'm really rooting for amtrack to make this work. Its so worth it!

@johnboy20xx Год назад

As someone from Kentucky who has lived in Louisville for the past 6 years, it sucks to know that we used to have passenger rail service to the city but it shut down in 2003. If we got service again, I would no doubt use it to take trips to Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Chicago for weekend trips, concerts, etc instead of having to drive. Literally a dream of mine, really hoping that Amtrak's plans get through.

@ConWolfDoubleO7 Год назад

Everyone along the Colorado front range has been begging for a train for years. I have not met a single person who said they would prefer to drive to Denver over a train. Palmer saw this exact vision when he placed Colorado Springs back in the 1870s and the fact that we back tracked is ridiculous. The whole town is there because of the railroad.

@MarcelaElviraTimis

Thank you for explaining why any kind of large infrastructure must NOT belong to some corporation.

@bensk8in467 Год назад

I live in the Quad Cities on the border of Iowa and Illinois. The death of the Rock Island Line killed the connectivity of this town. My Dad welded for them and was laid off and it caused a cascading effect of job loss here. They’ve been teasing of Amtrak service coming here for my whole life but it’s never happened. The fact that Amtrak doesn’t run through here and connects with Des Moines is absolutely brain dead. They run a route about an hour or so south instead through a series of smaller dying metropolitan areas. A high speed rail corridor would make daily travel to Chicago or Des Moines feasible here. There is nearly 400k people here.

@nyc90 Год назад

I wish this video talked more about how this Amtrak dream across America EXISTS in the northeast where Amtrak owns the tracks. I live in NYC, don’t have a car, and take trains everyday. Whether it’s the subway to get to work, commuter rail to visit friends in New Jersey and Connecticut, and Amtrak Acela when heading to Philly or Boston or DC, the American rail dream exists here and it’s amazing. I just wish the rest of America got to experience it as well.

@kaladin783 Год назад

I’ve taken Amtrak from winter park Colorado to Glenwood springs, and while the train was horrifically behind schedule, we weren’t in a hurry and the ride was almost luxurious. The seats were massive and much less cramped than an airplane, there were dedicated cars with massive windows for viewing the beautiful nature we traveled through, snack bars on the lower decks of some cars, plenty of room for everyone to move around, etc. Overall a much more pleasant experience than flying and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

@tomhoward1996 Год назад

One glaring example of why you don't want to abandon routes is the Lackawanna Cutoff in New Jersey. One of the best engineered stretches of track on the East Coast was abandoned and removed as part of Conrail's consolidation. Rumor has it that one reason was developers wanted to put casinos in the Poconos, which would compete with Atlantic City, and New Jersey didn't want that.

@RickyJr46 Год назад

Passengers feel like hostages on the Sunset Limited when it takes almost five hours to travel the last dozen miles into New Orleans. My train was already late, so it was not a priority for the local freight network dispatchers. They seemed to handle us grudgingly. We were like a fly caught in a spiderweb!

@amandac.s.9452 Год назад

Very timely. My own Amtrak trip last week was delayed 40 minutes FROM ITS STARTING STATION due to a freight train. Ended up being more than an hour late to our destination and completely obliterated our plans for connections home

@jackchen5290 Год назад

My single data point anecdote: there’s a ski train from Denver to winter park, Colorado during weekends in the winter. Most passenger takes it to do day trips to to skiing at winter park resort. We’re supposed to depart Denver a 7am and arrived at winter park resort at 9am, and get our full day of skiing before leaving the resort at

@EmilyDillon295 Год назад

I travel from Arkansas to Texas and back with Amtrak several times a year. Even with the delays, it’s more convenient when traveling with kids. I just wish the rail system went to more places like it use to.

@ronbarnabei8226 Год назад

As someone who grew up in suburban New York, I really wish it were possible for Amtrak to build its own dedicated high speed rail line from Boston to DC. Currently there’s a stretch of rail it shares with Metronorth that was not built for any type of real speed.