There are a lot of arguments re: America being incapable of having good railways that I dismiss more or less out of hand, and one I don't...
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My suspicion is that ridership can cover costs in certain cities--even small ones--if the railways are built and operated sensibly...
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...but that most of the country doesn't have a viable market for it. There are two further points here...
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...one is that existing systems require drastic overhauls in order to actually get ridership up and operating costs down.
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The second is that there are places *not* currently served by rail transit which could support it through ridership, if it were built.
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I think the way bigger problem with the Eagle is it comes once a day in either direction--no use for actual regular travel
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That can be fixed by not building enormous parking lots around every station, though
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