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**betraaaus** · 12-29-2009, 07:59 AM

proponents were ridiculed just as they are here (people won't ride it) but they've proven popular. and certainly I'd be hard pressed to argue that bailing out the nation's homeowners, who already receive subsidies, banks, and blowing up countries is a better investment than HSR. I'd also posit that the money we do spend is poorly allocated, funding t new highways at the expense of maintenance of existing ones.

Yeah, as long as Amtrak is sharing/renting tracks, it will never be more then what it is.

If half of those new highways had trains built into them, that'd be a grat way to start a new era of rail.

12-29-2009, 07:59 AM	#12
betraaaus Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	proponents were ridiculed just as they are here (people won't ride it) but they've proven popular. and certainly I'd be hard pressed to argue that bailing out the nation's homeowners, who already receive subsidies, banks, and blowing up countries is a better investment than HSR. I'd also posit that the money we do spend is poorly allocated, funding t new highways at the expense of maintenance of existing ones. Yeah, as long as Amtrak is sharing/renting tracks, it will never be more then what it is. If half of those new highways had trains built into them, that'd be a grat way to start a new era of rail.
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