{"id":70336,"date":"2019-03-26T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70336"},"modified":"2019-03-24T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T13:51:10","slug":"train-in-yep-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70336","title":{"rendered":"Train In&#8230;Yep, Vain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The advocates of high-speed rail to Chicago have changed their minds; they now want\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2019\/03\/21\/st-paul-to-chicago-high-speed-rail-plans-scrapped-in-favor-of-a-second-train\/\">another low-speed train<\/a> for a total of two per day.<br>Conspicuously left unasked: where are the photos of the throngs of people left standing on the train platforms because there&#8217;s no room on the existing train?\u00a0 \u00a0Is there actually a demand for a second train?\u00a0 Is St. Paul-to-Chicago passenger demand unmet by the MegaBus, or airline?\u00a0 If so, shouldn&#8217;t we know how many people we&#8217;re talking about, to gauge whether it&#8217;s worth spending a pile of money providing the service? <br>It seems odd to me that Amtrak would be intentionally leaving customers stranded rather than add another passenger car to the train.\u00a0 That suggests there are no customers, only lobbyists.<br>Like the ones who convinced St. Paul and Ramsey County to spend a fortune remodeling the downtown train station, for its once-a-day train visit.\u00a0 Beautiful, but desolate, a waste of taxpayer dollars.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota Progressives &#8211; not solving non-problems for 100 years.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advocates of high-speed rail to Chicago have changed their minds; they now want\u00a0another low-speed train for a total of two per day.Conspicuously left unasked: where are the photos of the throngs of people left standing on the train platforms because there&#8217;s no room on the existing train?\u00a0 \u00a0Is there actually a demand for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70337,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70336\/revisions\/70337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}