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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Kilgore

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3. I would like a middle ground

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jan 21, 2017, 11:17 PM

Jan 2017

Tried Amtrak from Portland Oregon to Sacramento CA once. Round trip ticket was ~$300 and took ~12hours if I recall correctly. The train was less than half full.

Since then I have been buying tickets between those cities from Southwest for $49 to $89 each way advance purchase. Travel time was 1.5 hours.

I can definitely understand Amtrak between East coast population centers, with lots of riders, but the PDX to sacto run is a joke.

How about expanding Amtrak to routes that make economic sense and ditch the loosers.

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