From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 08-Apr-15 09:56, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > It was a statement about priorities. If having adequate intercity   
   > passenger rail was domestic policy in this country at both federal   
   > and state level, it certainly doesn't preclude either freight service   
   > nor un-nationalized railroads. It just requires a commitment of all   
   > parties to using railroads for all appropriate forms of   
   > transportation and adequate access to capital, even to the extent   
   > that additional capital would have to come from the taxpayers.   
      
   Notably, the sorts of improvements necessary to make passenger service   
   viable are the same as what the railroads _already_ need to keep up with   
   the existing demand for freight service.  And helping them with the   
   latter would cost taxpayers _less_ than expanding and repairing highways   
   every year for trucks.  It's only the anti-rail bigots in Congress (and,   
   to be fair, the Teamsters' lobbyists lining their pockets) that prevent   
   this win-win-win scenario from happening.   
      
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