Reason TV on High-Speed Rail-Fail
via youtube.com
I've mentioned before that essentially, you paid me to ride Amtrak last year. Twice, in fact. As much as people like the idea of rail - it is not a solution, only a trade-off. In this case - a trade-off that has a track record (Ba-dum-chsshh!) of costing far more to operate, than it returns in profit.
The problem is that we don't see our dollars going to subsidize someone to ride Amtrak, because they are taken through taxation, rather than at a ticket office. This is the Unseen. The Seen is some politician (President Obama, George W. Bush, Benito Musselini, anyone.) building a really cool, super-fast train (Profitable or not - you have to admit - Trains are definitely cool...) - which appears to exist for free.
