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Could N.American society have successfully evolved into heavy use of passenger rail?
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I noticed you went to length to define "successful" as well as "heavy use" but make no such effort to describe/define the concept of "evolved" as you have used it. <br /> <br />probably a good thing too, since the word doesn't even fit properly in this context, since we have, as a society/ "been there, done that"...and have since "evolved" even further, to airplanes and automobiles. <br /> <br />I take the very use of the expression "evolved" with a grain of salt when used as a metaphor in analyzing social policy, because of the connotations that anyone who subscribes to philosophy other than that offered, is somehow non-evolved, a knuckledragging neanderthal, etc. And I think we get enough if those histrionics every 4 years when the democrats lose another presidentual election. <br /> <br />Widespread passenger rail has alread had it's day in this country, and it's future is limited to hi density/ short-moderate distance niche applications
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