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Comment on Taken for a Ride by Tweets that mention Taken for a Ride « Urban In-Fill -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Taken for a Ride « Urban In-Fill -- Topsy.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:26:18 +0000

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Comment on Back on Amtrak – Part II by cmhgourmand

cmhgourmand — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:04:03 +0000

Jeff – thanks for keeping train travel on the radar.

Comment on Columbus Police Department – Creating a Bad Business Model by Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:41:03 +0000

Here’s another look at the story from NBC4 – the local affiliate:
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/News/local/article/columbus_residents_say_police_advise_them_to_move/25699/P10/

Comment on Columbus Police Department – Creating a Bad Business Model by John

John — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:51 +0000

I can't believe Columbus spends 40% of it's annual budget on police ($252.4 Million out of $643.5 Million) and then gets service like this.

Comment on Columbus Police Department – Creating a Bad Business Model by Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:03:17 +0000

Not good at all. Perhaps they should hire directly from that community so that police actually live where they patrol as well.

It may not be so much a business model problem as a cultural problem within the department. Time to do some serious inventory reduction.

Comment on Back on Amtrak – Part I by Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:37:30 +0000

Training is a wonderful way to go. I often wonder why Americans don’t demand better service (schedules) from their politicians. True the tracks are owned by the railroads but the initial charters required those railways to provide passenger service. They managed to weasel their way out of that one for the more profitable freight.

Some say that Amtrak is heavily subsidized but so are all forms of transportation. Four dollars a gallon would be about the actual cost of gasoline without the subsidies, and airfare cannot begin to cover the actual costs of maintaining the air traffic control system.

Comment on Back on Amtrak – Part I by Walker Evans

Walker Evans — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:59:35 +0000

Wow! Sounds like a pretty nice “rolling” hotel room.

Comment on Back on Amtrak – Part I by John

John — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:57:51 +0000

What is an appropriate tip for an Amtrak steward?

Comment on Prepare for Amtrak’s return to Columbus by Noozer

Noozer — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:15:24 +0000

You should post your blog post on the 3C Is Me Facebook page and on Urbanohio.com.

Comment on Prepare for Amtrak’s return to Columbus by Noozer

Noozer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:17:50 +0000

Not a bad idea at all, Jeff. I am told that there are already well over 10,000 Amtrak Guest Rewards card holders in Ohio. It would be interesting to see how Amtrak and their bosses at USDOT would react to a surge of membership requests from the Buckeye State.

To alex b : Some of your criticisms are right on about service outside of the Northeast, but a lot of Amtrak’s slow trains, etc are both a function of railroad bottlenecks around places like Chicago…and the fact that Amtrak has been horribly and historically underfunded since it was created in 1971. The new federal transportation bill will fund Amtrak for the first time on a multi-year basis and that should at least begin to address a lot of equipment and service issues.