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If the costs for making it painless for them to share are mitigated, then everybody wins. No everyone loses when you add cost because you want to add some pass
by protomyth 8y ago
If the costs for making it painless for them to share are mitigated, then everybody wins.
No everyone loses when you add cost because you want to add some passengers to a system that is expressly hostile towards passenger train needs. Cost add affects everyone including the poor who won’t benefit.
Do it new and stop trying to take from someone doing a damn good job.
- pstuart 8y agoThere is no added cost directly. The original proposition was based upon "free" money: shifting existing dollars from failing and fraudulent expenditures in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The other part of that "cost" is effectively investment in enhancing existing capacity. I was arguing to make the system not need to be hostile to passenger needs by improvements of the existing infrastructure. The other point that I failed to emphasize is that I'm working with the primary assumption that getting the necessary right of ways would prohibitively expensive and in some cases close to impossible.