>>271074>they hate the economics of passenger rail, highspeed or otherwise.the economics are very good
whats the economics in throwing 10 billion a year at the Highway Trust Fund doesn't break even from the gas tax?
>Can you say Model T?Can you say National City Lines?
>Train ridership fell of massively after the second world warBecause GM was buying and shutting down streetcars + at the same time running and ad campaign in each market extolling the virtues of the car, and the government was helping them with suburbanization!
>The creation of the interstate highway system was merely building improved and safer infrastructure for what people were already doingwas a boondoggle for the auto industry and suburbanization and a means of forstalling a recession after the Korean War
450 billion in todays money btw
>Rail couldn't compete in the fifties, and it can't compete now given the market conditions in the US,Which are slanted in favour of road because of incredible government support for it and immense propaganda campaigns like your post
>and the average tax payer doesn't want their money spent on a multibillion dollar boondogle*cough*military expenditure*cough*