Reply #110: is that so? [View All]

[Two Americas]

Then how can we afford to build and maintain highways? That is much more expensive, even if we ignore the costs in environmental destruction and pollution and wasted fuel, than maintaining a rail network would be.

If rail transit and public transportation is so backward and obsolete, why are other modern and progressive countries investing in it?

This is American exceptionalism and rugged individualism taken to an extreme and anti-social degree.

Lots of money for ball parks, highways, airports, box stores and suburban development, but nothing for public transportation? Are we to imagine that these anti-public transportation arguments just coincidentally dovetail with the general assault on all public infrastructure and resources in the crazed privatization, de-regulated libertarian "free market" political and social environment in which we are all being forced to live? Does anyone still think that represents "progress?"