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<p>[quote user="zinker"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/trccs/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>I would venture that a single coal-fired HSR train would produce less carbon than all the automobiles it could remove from the highways. And that doesn't consider the possibility of powering those trains from other sources. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">Well that may be the case, depending on how many automobiles a single coal-fired HSR train might remove from the highways.  And it also depends on the speed of the HSR train.  But what about my main point about the cost/benefit of using HSR to lower highway cost as opposed to spending the HSR money on other methods to help highways?</span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>I'm not a transportation engineer, nor a politician. I would leave it to the experts and political interests to weigh the options and make a wise choice. Sometimes it's less important to make the absolutely perfect decision than it is to make a reasonable decision and follow though on it.</p> <p>Of course as a train person I am biased in favor of rail solutions where they make sense. I'd like nothing better then to have another option then to drive my own car everywhere I go. I live 1/4 mile from a rail line, but the nearest passenger service to me is Amtrak some 60 miles away.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well it is not just the transportation engineers and the politicians who run the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The U.S. taxpayers are the ones who are going to have to pay for this, and they are the ones who should decide whether we need it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That is the way our system works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Moreover, the transportation builders and politicians are precisely the ones who will benefit the most from the money spent, so they are the last ones who should make the decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If you ask the fox whom he thinks should guard the chicken coop, who do you think the fox will recommend? </span></span></span></p>
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