Have you noticed that every proposal for a new or expanded passenger rail system in this country is opposed by organized media campaigns with the same basic arguments: It won’t work…it costs too much… it’s a boondoggle. One such campaign played a major role in killing a public transit project for the City of…
Ask almost anyone into transportation issues which City in the country is the most enlightened and progressive when it comes to transportation infrastructure and I’ll bet that 90 percent would say Portland, Oregon. When it comes to getting around a fairly large city without a car, Portland has it figured out. There’s a light rail…
The people who fuss and fume because passenger rail in the U.S. is subsidized will acknowledge (if pressed) that all public transportation is subsidized. And they will also concede, albeit grudgingly, that the roughly $1.5 billion that Amtrak gets every year from the federal government is a tiny fraction of one percent of the annual…
