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the parts that require hefty subsidies to serve places that have realistic alternatives You realize roads are built & maintained entirely at public expense? Bu
by gascan 9y ago
the parts that require hefty subsidies to serve places that have realistic alternatives
You realize roads are built & maintained entirely at public expense? But we are so used to taking roads for granted.
Public money spent on rail, is public money that doesn't need to be spent on roads. So, IMO, the first question is how many passenger-miles we get per dollar on rail, and how many per dollar on roads.
- ascagnel_ 9y agoYou also can't discount the benefits of modal redundancy in transit. Trains don't just carry people around -- they also take drivers off the road. When NJTransit's rail-workers union was agitating for a strike a few years ago, the state DOT advised drivers to expect a few hundred thousand extra trips per day to make up for the service outage.
- yongjik 9y ago> You realize roads are built & maintained entirely at public expense? But we are so used to taking roads for granted. Reminds me of the famous (and probably fake) quote: "Where was the government when I was on food stamps?"