A Passenger System Worthy Of A Great Nation

Neal Pierce wonders when we will start diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from new "spaghetti bowl intersections" to a passenger system "worthy of a great ...nation."

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March 14, 2002, 8:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


Congress has continued to demand that Amtrak become "self-sustaining." It won't happen--there's virtually no place in the world where rail or other transportation systems pay their own way...And while Amtrak gets hammered for its costs, projects like $600 million highway spaghetti bowl intersections sprout across the country...one has to wonder, will we start diverting those hundreds of millions to a passenger system worthy of a great (and more secure) 21st century nation?

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