I believe that you may have missed the point of what I said.
Yes, Disneyland was/is down, as are ALL long-distance destinations. Colorado and New Mexico tourism has been down for a long time. Local/regional destinations like the CTSRR have been and will be less severely affected.
The danger as I see it, is for the RGRPC to ignore all other factors that contributed to the lackluster numbers. They were lackluster BEFORE the bombing. AFTER the bombing, they were a helluva lot better than anybody around here expected.
"The world we now live in.."
We can just accept it, wring our hands over it, and do nothing about it or we can come up with creative ways to attract riders in spite of it.
If you attribute the problem to "The world we now live in", It's an excuse.