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[jimhudson]

Sounds Good to me Jis! There is no Political or Religious Test (So Far! ) in this Country to Board a Train, if you Have the Money, They'll Sell you a Ticket! Bet Ridership would be like Other College towns, Heavy on Weekends/End of Semesters/Spring Break etc.

Wouldnt it be Worth Looking into for Liberty U. to consider running a Shuttle to the Present Station and put the Money into Fixing it Up, probably would be Much Cheaper and Quicker and Eliminate the Back-UP Move??

[George Harris]

Sounds Good to me Jis! There is no Political or Religious Test (So Far! ) in this Country to Board a Train, if you Have the Money, They'll Sell you a Ticket! Bet Ridership would be like Other College towns, Heavy on Weekends/End of Semesters/Spring Break etc.

Wouldnt it be Worth Looking into for Liberty U. to consider running a Shuttle to the Present Station and put the Money into Fixing it Up, probably would be Much Cheaper and Quicker and Eliminate the Back-UP Move??

In times past there were stops at or near colleges where trains only stopped on Friday-Saturday-Sunday, and may early Monday. Why not here? The current service could terminate/originate here on high student travel days and the empty equipment back up to Kemper St. The rest of the time, simply terminate at Kemper St. This cuold be done now, or as near to now that anything that gets caught up in government processes can happen, and the Roanoke issue dealt with later when it starts to approach reality.

JIS, so far as I know, there in no connection of any kind between religious belief and practice on the one hand and position on riding trains on the other. It is more of a matter of frustration on the part of pro passenger rail people that are politically conservative that they are seeing a trasportation issue hijacked into a political issue. People of politically conservative but pro-rail perspectives tend to simply hold their nose and vote the conservative candidate. The fact that Mussolini made the trains run on time in Italy, was hardly consolation for all the other things he did, and while maybe not to that extreme, that is more or less the rationale behind a vote for a politically conservative but anti-rail candidate. In general, considering that much of the money spent on oil imprts goes to some of the most irrational and repressive political regimes on this plant, in addition to sending lots of money out of the country, anything that reduces our oil consumption is considered a good thing by those that are politically conservative. It is just what is seen now on efforts that will supposedly reduce our depenence on oil and that they are "Much sound and fury signifying nothing."

[AmtrakBlue]

University of Delaware is one such college that has Amtrak service on weekends at the Newark DELAWARE station.