Reply #67: Do *ALL* Americans think about this in a purely-binary fashion? [View All]

[Tesha]

I.e., "It's high-speed rail or nothing!"?

Transportation should be a well-coordinated web
of a variety of different forms of transportation,
from walking to bicycling to scheduled buses to
streetcars and light rail to subways to trains,
both low and high-speed. Paratransit. Taxis.
Air travel. Rental cars and vans. Jitney buses.

And if the price of oil continues to rise ("If".
Right!), eventually it will become economically
infeasible for all of us to use our private cars
all of the time and when *THAT* happens, suddenly
it will become economically feasible for all of
these transportation choices to flourish, even
out in the boonies.

Tesha