Two wrongs and a right

Yglesias | ThinkProgress: "If you ignore the fact that building a nationwide true high-speed rail network would cost $1 trillion, then building a nationwide true high-speed rail network would be really cheap. In much the same spirit, Michael Barone argues that intercity buses are a better bet than passenger rail. “The cost to taxpayers is minimal” he assures us, because “[c]ity streets and interstate highways already exist.”"

What is needed is not the present network. A new network in which qualified communities have at least 10,000 people living in an eco-sufficient, safe and car-free environment. Collapse rural into such nodes. Then transportation will take care of itself and will be neither hsr or clunky bus. More likely pneumatic.



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