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How many highways run without subsidies?

• mudetroit 10y ago
  High speed rail cannot come close to replacing highways though. It deals with a fraction of the overall traffic that the highway system supports without near the flexibility. This is why even the countries that are making extensive use of high speed rail still have extensive highway systems. Please note, I am in no way trying to imply that our current highway system works well, but that is a far different discussion.
  • Symbiote 10y ago
    The proposed high speed line north from London is supposedly the alternative to building a new motorway. The high speed live won't carry freight, but it will free up space on the slower railway, and the motorway.
  • ojbyrne 10y ago
    Fair point in the first paragraph. It's the "far different discussion" I'm more interested in though. Starting with the loss of life caused by driving.
• cjensen 10y ago
  I was not stating an opinion on whether it is reasonable to subsidize HSR; rather I was just pointing out the discrepancy between the claim in the comment here versus the multiply-sourced claims in the article. Additionally, the HSR proposal explicitly promised not to require ongoing subsidies. I think that was foolish: HSR would have passed without making silly promises.