Critics decry the failure of the recent federal "white paper" on reducing congestion to include any discussion of railroads.
"The federal government's Transportation Department has just issued a 'white paper' on reducing traffic congestion in the country and guess what? It doesn't include a word about how improvement of either passenger or freight rail in America might be able to help.
Once more, the powers-that-be in Washington are determined to put all the nation's transportation eggs essentially in one basket more and bigger highways with a small sop to improving some airport traffic control systems.
Why leaders of this administration can't understand that to put 500 people on a train essentially removes 500 cars from the highway is nothing short of perplexing unless, of course, road builders just have better connections and more money."
FULL STORY: Bush just keeps on ignoring railroads
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