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<p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>PNWRMNM:</strong></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>Henry, </p> <p>You can answer one simple question. Do you favor free enterprise solutions or statist solutions. It is an either or question. Pick one.</p> <p>Mac</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>I will address your question as you can take both sides.  Why not let the class 1s take a tax abatment on all infrastructure and maintenance for HrSR that is passenger rail specific? Also meet the PRIIA on time goals with obvious mitigation of unforseen problems. This was the practice for many years on the GA RR ATL - Augusta although that was an unacceptable mixed train service.</p> <p>another question is how can this country get an integrated transportation system.  The system that has come into service in Switzerland may be the closest to a template. That is you can drive or walk to a bus or light rail then take light rail to intercity train station in Zurich, Geneva , or other city and then reverse to final destination.It appears that France and Germany both are copying this type of service with inter country service also to SU.  Now the UK is trying to so the same thing. [/quote]</p> <p>I am going to San Francisco next week.  After getting my bag at the airport, I will take a short walk to the BART station, where I will board a train for the Civic Center station.  I will walk back one or two blocks and jump on one of the Van Ness Avenue buses for a short ride to my hotel.  I can do the same thing in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Dallas, etc.  My point?  We have a lot more integration in public transport in the United States than many people realize.</p> <p>No matter where the discussion leads in our forums, no one wants to talk seriously about the $64 question. Well, actually, its a $15.3 trillion question at the federal level, plus another $2.5 trillion at the state and local level, not to mention $48 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  Its call the debt problem.  And it gives rise to this question.  Were are we going to get the money for the grand schemes envisioned my some folks? </p>
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