Comments on: Cute New Amtrak Ad http://fortworthology.com/2009/04/10/cute-new-amtrak-ad/ Traditional urbanism, smart growth, transit, bicycles, sustainability Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: fwtacoma http://fortworthology.com/2009/04/10/cute-new-amtrak-ad/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 fwtacoma Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:06:50 +0000 http://fortworthology.com/?p=1834#comment-1782 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. 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.

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