[Rumplemeyer]

When the railroad system was built it was backed by the Government with grants and outright funding and something else...The Interstate Highway System did not exist, what do you think killed the railroads.

[ml/nj]

what do you think killed the railroads

Airplanes.

I doubt anyone living where I do now used a train in 1950 either. When I use public transit, I take a bus which doesn't use any Interstate highways at all. My guess is that only a small percentage of the buses that go into NYC from NJ are ever on an Interstate, not counting the absurd designation of the helix into the Lincoln Tunnel as I-495.

ML/NJ