Cute New Amtrak Ad
This new Amtrak commercial is making the rounds, and we have to say, this is a nicely done one. Kudos to Amtrak. We’ve mentioned before that we’re big fans at Fort Worthology of Amtrak and were impressed with them on a recent jaunt to Austin. It’s good to see them leveraging their current ridership surge in this way.
I think this is the same angle our elected officials are taking in promoting the idea of the train from DFW to San Antonio, with the leg to Houston. You can get to an airport two hours early, pay all of those extra fees, and then finally take off…or…go to the train station, hop on and ride.
I like the ad. Although I think Amtrak’s goals for Texas are somewhat inconsistent with the higher speed rail plan. It sounds like they want the stimulus funding to go to their regular rail lines. Where the Texas T-Bone idea is a higher speed rail that would use different trains.