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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS [quote]I just think that in Europe, the people get a better transportation system, Public transportation works well when you don't have states like Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, etc. I.E. lots and lots of square miles with little or no market for public transportation. I think the Bush administration realizes this, and this is the first push for a transportation system that would work (forcing Amtrak to become profitable or die is merely the first step in working towards high speed rail projects in corridors that need them). [/quote] So high speed projects would just spontaneously evolve? Funny how that scheme never worked when it came to building the Interstates or airports. The feds just poured BILLIONS into them without idiotically demanding they be profitable. Bush's plan is like saying we'll improve the airways if we first bankrupt the FAA. All those free-marketers will come in and then run the highways, airports and trains. Right. He's living in a fantasy if he thinks anything remotely on that level would happen. THe interstates weren't built only so the more densley populated states could have service. That's why Sterling, Colo., got the Interstate. People drive back east like they do in the west. Dittos for train or bus travel. You'd think someone from as geographically isolated as the Rocky Mountains would realize that. Denver is a popular Amtrak stop, even with only one train each direction. The federal investment in infrastructure comes first - then the ridership. Neglecting Amtrak by both parties over its 30 plus years is what has caused its current troubles. Funny how highways and airways never have to beg for crumbs of funding like Amtrak.
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