We?ve heaped plenty of scorn on proposals to squander billions of tax dollars setting up new intercity passenger rail trains across North Carolina and beyond. But, you know, you can never heap too much scorn on such an idiotic recommendation, so here?s someone else making the obvious point, in a Christian Science Monitor piece on the Obama administration?s rail fantasies:?
“To believe this makes economic sense, you’d have to be foolish,” says
James Moore, director of the transportation and engineering program at
the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “In the US, autos
cover shorter trips better and airlines capture longer trips. That
doesn’t leave room for high-speed rail to compete.”
Michael Sanera nailed it a while back in a CarolinaJournal.tv interview:
