If we ran more trains on long distance routes and increased capacity for sleeper rooms on the trains, the price of tickets could be cheaper and schedules would be better, which would raise ridership helping to give politicians evidence that rail benefits the citizens meaning rail gets better funding so we can provide better service
Basically what I am saying is we need at minimum twice daily trains on the California Zephyr and preferably closer to 4 or 5 daily RTs
This would significantly help the cities along long distance routes like Denver, Salt Lake City and Reno to have better and more usable transit as people would have multiple options for when to leave their homes, which would significantly boost ridership as these are not small cities by any means
There is enough ridership to get 22 daily flights from Denver to Salt Lake City, there is more than enough to justify 5 daily trains between the 2 cities even if the train would be slowrr
