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Tulyar - It's not that I'm dismissing Wolmar's book so much as what I think is a valuable use of my precious time and resources. Open Access is a concept that is a result of natural evolution of transportation systems, and it has proved itself invaluable in it's economic benefits to society. Since the title of the book is a dead giveaway as to it's spin, it is unlikely that my reading it will result in any benefits to me or my POV. It would be like me taking the time to read a book espousing the benefits of Marxism after we all have seen the superior benefits of capitalism (which is something we had to do in college). We already know the truth of Marxism vs capitalism, so why engrouse ourselves in a regurgitation of a failed system? There's much better reading out there. <br /> <br />It is irrefutable that a transportation system that extracts monopolistic powers over domestic producers has a detrimental effect on a domestic economy. Any nation that continues to allow such degradation of domestic production via inhibited transportation parameters in favor of sustaining an import transportation system with competitive characteristics is a nation that is not long for this planet. Australia has learned this, most of the European nations have learned this, most Asian nations have learned this, but somehow this realization has escaped the notice of North America's social leaders. <br /> <br />Would that this nation called the USA could have a rail system wherein the participants fall all over themselves to get domestic production to market or to port the way they currently fall all over themselves to bring in cheap Chinese imports (and practically at cost.)
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