[Clutch Martin]

“It is also why it takes about 30 years to build a new runway at the Atlanta airport and why it may never be possible (not that it is desirable) to build a high-speed train in California.”

With all the data as of late coming out on derailments Nationwide, it’s probably safer to fly.

A few weeks ago when the airport software crashed and there was nothing flying on the East Coast it was reminiscence of the week after 9/11 when all flights were canceled. I lived around DC during 9/11 and worked in town and it was pretty darn peaceful without the Jets overhead.

Sadly idyllic and peaceful out the mayhem and terror of the 11th.

[nathanbedford]

I am old enough to remember from my youth the droning almost throbbing sound of four engine Constellations passing overhead before jets became ubiquitous.