Being a RWNJ, I fail to see the problem with high speed rail investments. What am I missing? We might not use it tomorrow, but mark my words, we WILL need it eventually.
Hank, ya'll got your BART. The early investment of the 70's has saved your collective Bay Area butts.
Seattle coulda, shoulda, woulda done it decades ago, but nooooo...
Any investment in mass transportation is better than NO investment. Just the projected growth should tell a person something. Try putting 20% more cars on the current capacity roads and see what you get.
Lack of adequate transportation is in the top 3 reasons companies won't stay/come here. We've allowed rail to fall by the wayside in our country for one reason... to create truck driving jobs after WWII.
DUMB IDEA!
Aunty-
You touch on so many subjects here:
Don't you have that cute little monorail thingy in Seattle?
During the '50's GM bought up many municipal/public transportation systems so that people would need to buy a car.
I once heard our railroad "system" described as not on par with Bulgaria's railways.
Europe chose to tax gasoline at an extremely high rate to help subsidize public transportation after world war II and they have a fantastic rail system. If we did that here though, we'd be socialists, and god forbid we should create infrastructure lest someone call us a bad name
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