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[quote user="John WR"] Sam,   You say motorists pay the costs of roads.  Please answer a question.  When Robert Moses was having apartment buildings torn down while people were still living in those buildings what motorist paid any cost at all for those people who were forced to flee for there lives?  I just don't see that any motorists paid anything; the costs were paid by the people whose homes were destroyed.   John [/quote] And I suspect that many of the people who have been dislocated by urban highways, which would be an small per cent of the population, were motorists.  And tax payers! For every person who was dislocated by an urban highway or school or airport, I suspect thousands of people have benefited from these projects. In progress there have always been and always will be losers. Hopefully, society will soften the impact of their dislocation.   I am re-reading Jill Jones Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and its Tunnels. The project, which was funded by the Pennsylvania Railroad, resulted in the dislocation of thousands of people in and around the area that eventually was occupied by the station. How does this differ from other dislocations, except perhaps in time and scope?  All those readers who believe that building Penn Station or the nation's other railroad stations, which in many instances resulted in the dislocation of people, was a bad idea, please raise your hands. History has little or nothing to do with framing the current problem. Passenger rail is a potential solution for the transport problem(s).  Where is it likely to be an optimum solution?  What should it look like?  Who will pay for it?  How will it be paid for?
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