JLF head man John Hood discusses the lack of reality surrounding mass transit:
As Randal O’Toole explained in a recent analysis for the Cato Institute, that’s not the end of the “carbon footprint” comparison:
Even where rail transit operations save a little energy, the construction of rail transit lines consumes huge amounts of energy and emits large volumes of greenhouse gases. In most cases, many decades of energy savings would be needed to repay the energy cost of construction.
Speaking of Randal O’Toole and reality, he has a heavy dose for those of us here in the South who long for a transit system like New York City’s.
Update: Davie County Commissioners sign off on a PART tax.
