Acela

I mean, I think they do an okay job, but they also understand that even if they've never been profitable, and I think there's only been one year now where they've actually broken even.

Think about all the passengers, whether the Acela up in the northwest quarter, northeast.

They're just – I don't know.

We must hold them accountable.

I believe Antioch is an infill station somewhere on here.

And so as a result, being both effectively an intercity train as well as a local regional rail, it has actually one of the highest riderships of any Amtrak route in the entire United States, really only being beaten by, of course, the Northeast Corridor and Acela, and then also Surfliner, which is a very similar train in the Los Angeles and San Diego area.

But nonetheless, an intercity train is not local transit, and so for a long time Contra Costa County had been attempting to expand transit service into its otherwise largely and annoyingly suburban confines.

For a long time, West Bart had been considered down the I-80 median.

It's like fluorescent lighting.

You know what I mean? The Acela, the Amtrak, has the same problem.

The lights are so bright.

If you want to take a nap or you want to snooze, you've got to put some sunglasses on.

It's like fluorescent lighting.

You know what I mean? The Acela, the Amtrak has the same problem.

The lights are so bright.

If you want to take a nap or you want to snooze or you've got to put some sunglasses on, other than, you know what I mean? Have you

I said, well, maybe you don't realize it, but we've all been on the Long Island Railroad and we're just happy to be on the Amtrak Northeastern.

We don't even give a shit about like, it's an Acela? Fantastic.

But like, we're just an upgrade to that.

Like, so it's like you give people more than they need and then you pull back a little bit.