"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
If it can’t pay for itself how can it ‘work’? Any other business we call that failure.
And I don’t think they are going to have the ridership numbers to get people out of their cars. What do you do when you get to your destination and have to get to where you’re going 5-10 miles away?
And besides, can you point to any number of citizens or citizens’ groups that are saying what we really need more than anything else in our communities is high speed rail? The public isn’t falling all over itself for this. They want taxes to go down, they want police and fire and lower municipal costs. They want the roads paved and repaired so that they can get to work and get to where they need to without damaging their vehicles.
All these rail systems never work out as projected. They are scams and all they do is suck money that could be spent on more practical things in a community and region due to both initial construction and then, forever, maintenance, repairs, replacements and upgrades.