National NO Train Day

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We the undersigned call on the President of the U.S., Barack Obama, and the National Railroad Passenger Corp. to restore the Sunset Limited east of New Orleans to Jacksonville FL. We further ask that this be made a daily service, as opposed to the tri-weekly service of the past.
Passenger rail can improve the economic climate of an area that is still recovering from a major hurricane. Restoration of service will increase investment in infrastructure which will help combat rising unemployment along the Gulf Coast, assuring benefit to the entire region.
There have been an excessive number of reasons given for not reinstating the Sunset:
*Tracks destroyed by storm not repaired (repaired since march 06)
*Stations not repaired (most stops use only a platform)
*Sunset Limited is a "problematic train" not carrying enough passengers (a misleading statement when comparing trains running 7 days a week to the Sunset which runs 3 days a week).
Amttrak is the NATIONAL Passenger Rail System, but we have no national system when travelers from the west coast must go from New Orleans via Washington D.C. to get to Jacksonville. It is time to end this senseless and absurd course of NO TRAIN east of New Orleans, and end it NOW!

423 Signatures

  • Webster Tucker
    • Zip Code
    • 39452
    • Date
    • 4-2-09
  • Raymond Embry
    • Zip Code
    • 85281
    • Date
    • 04/01/2009
  • John Sita
    • Comments
    • Please put back the New Orleans-Orlando portion of the route and make the entire Los Angeles-Orlando route daily.
    • Zip Code
    • 70114
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Richard L. Wright
    • Zip Code
    • 32563
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Henry Wulff
    • Comments
    • Please support daily service from Los Angeles to San Antonio to New Orleans to Orlando.
    • Zip Code
    • 78550
    • Date
    • 04/02/09
  • Deborah Avinger
    • Date
    • 4-2-09
  • robert mays
    • Date
    • 4/3/09
  • Jerry H Sullivan
    • Comments
    • I rode the train often, Jacksonville to/fromHouston and it always ran FULL, explain to me why ridership was unacceptible.
    • Zip Code
    • 32257
    • Date
    • 04-02-2009
  • T.J. Golson
    • Zip Code
    • 39555
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Richard L. Friedman
    • Comments
    • national train day is meaningless without the transcontinental Sunset Limited!
    • Zip Code
    • 95826
    • Date
    • April 2, 2009
  • Jill Mastrototaro
    • Comments
    • Using this existing transportation system also saves taxpayers money, supports public transit alternatives, and promotes a cleaner, healthier environment.
    • Zip Code
    • 70118
    • Date
    • 4-2-09
  • thomas reiser
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Liz Ford
    • Zip Code
    • 39567
    • Date
    • 02 April 09
  • Julia A O'Neal
    • Comments
    • Yea! We NEED this!!
    • Zip Code
    • 39573
    • Date
    • 04/02/2009
  • Robert Farnsworth
    • Comments
    • The fact that the Sunset is limited to service only 3 days per week and the fact that its route was truncated at New Orleans after Katrina provide clues as to the train's "lack of ridership." Extend the train now.
    • Zip Code
    • 78758-3451
    • Date
    • 04-02-2009
  • Lynn Thompson
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Jarrod DellaChiesa
    • Zip Code
    • 94580
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Allison Wolf
    • Zip Code
    • 94545
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • joyce tucker
    • Comments
    • there is a great need for this service
    • Date
    • 4-2-09
  • Jerry Martin
    • Comments
    • We need to restore the Sunset Limited East of New Orleans.
    • Zip Code
    • 91356
    • Date
    • 4/02/2009
  • Ronald A. Phernetton
    • Comments
    • South Georgians used the Sunset too.
    • Zip Code
    • 31537
    • Date
    • April 2, 2009
  • Louis K. Bangma
    • Comments
    • Want daily Sunset Ltd. coast to coast
    • Zip Code
    • 71303
    • Date
    • 4-2-2009
  • Tom Hoffman
    • Comments
    • Nationwide Service or No Service
    • Zip Code
    • 24134
    • Date
    • 4/3/09
  • Marcelo Benoit
    • Comments
    • Bring back the Sunset to Florida, the Floridian, the Broadway Limited, the North Coast Hiawatha, the National Limited, the Pioneer and the Desert Wind!
    • Date
    • 04/03/2009
  • Gene Poon
    • Date
    • 02APR2009
  • Scott Macunga
    • Comments
    • В
    • Zip Code
    • В
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • Mike Cowen
    • Comments
    • Please restore the New Orleans-Orlando portion of the route and bring back daily service for the entire Los Angeles-Orlando route.
    • Zip Code
    • 85250
    • Date
    • 4/3/2009
  • Gregory Thompson
    • Zip Code
    • 32327
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • Matthew Marderosian
    • Comments
    • Director of Save Our Trains Michigan
    • Zip Code
    • 70503
    • Date
    • 4/3/2009
  • Gary Lanman
    • Zip Code
    • 74604
    • Date
    • 4/3/2009
  • Pat Lynch
    • Comments
    • The Sunset east of New Orleans is an essential part of a national rail system.
    • Zip Code
    • 72211
    • Date
    • 4/2/09
  • Douglas L. Weiskopf
    • Comments
    • This train needs to be daily and the schedule tightened up!
    • Zip Code
    • 77015
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • Christopher Parker
    • Comments
    • It only makes sense to restore the Sunset - it's a critical link in the national network and it will improve the performance of the existing Sunset route. Plus I hear the equipment is already there, just sitting around in New Orleans!
    • Zip Code
    • 05346
    • Date
    • April 2, 2009
  • David Allen White
    • Zip Code
    • 20003
    • Date
    • 2009-04-03
  • Mark S. Bucol
    • Comments
    • I have ridden the old Sunset Limited from Orlando (near relatives home) to San Antonio
    • Zip Code
    • 63110
    • Date
    • 4-3-09
  • Joe Ward
    • Date
    • 04/03/09
  • Kyle J. Emge
    • Zip Code
    • 02144
    • Date
    • 04/03/09
  • Malcolm Kenton
    • Comments
    • While it is good to focus on corridors where more frequent and faster trains can divert significant numbers of passengers from highways and airlines, it is just as important to maintain a truly national network of passenger trains, which provide mobility for a broad segment of the population and have many other public benefits.
    • Zip Code
    • 27410
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • Daniel Day
    • Comments
    • Train Travel is the only way.
    • Zip Code
    • 78222
    • Date
    • 1/3/2009
  • Brian Bundridge
    • Comments
    • Returning the train is very important to the economies in the region. It is critical to see this train resume its full route. Using a hurricane as an excuse has gone far enough.
    • Zip Code
    • 98032
    • Date
    • 04-03-2009
  • Mel Carlson
    • Comments
    • There is no excuse for not restoring the SUNSET from New Orleans to Florida.
    • Zip Code
    • 60030
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • Ole M. Amundsen, Jr.
    • Date
    • 04/03/09
  • deborah emery
    • Comments
    • we need such public transportation to expand
    • Zip Code
    • 39564
    • Date
    • april 3, 2009
  • Ginger DuBose
    • Comments
    • We need the train to New Orleans
    • Zip Code
    • 39571
    • Date
    • 4/3/09
  • Jackson McQuigg
    • Comments
    • Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers
    • Zip Code
    • 32728
    • Date
    • 4-3-09
  • paula vassey
    • Comments
    • Please give us a 7 day a week train.
    • Zip Code
    • 39553
    • Date
    • 4-3-09
  • Jack Brown
    • Zip Code
    • 60056
    • Date
    • 04/03/2009
  • David M Clayton
    • Comments
    • В
    • Zip Code
    • В
    • Date
    • 04-03-09
  • William Savage
    • Date
    • April 3, 2009
  • larry halm
    • Comments
    • have used it before would like it back, i personally would use it
    • Zip Code
    • 61350
    • Date
    • 4/04/2009