And that’s not even timing about the gross, unsanitary interiors. Gee wonder why people don’t use public transit more when it’s not funded, inconvenient and gross?

I love rail travel and I still disliked most of the cascades trips I took. Those things are never cleaned, they have the old cloth seats, which are gross, the bathrooms if you have to use them are worse than many airlines…so sad

Radio Free Ubanism talked about this last week, and they said that Amtrak has already ordered cars to replace these, but they won’t be delivered for another 18 months, so it’s going to be a long period of disruption. There was some talk about Amtrak leasing cars from regional transit agencies (Sound Transit, possibly) to fill the gaps for a while.