Interesting theory since it was the railroads that expanded our population center and allowed our country to grow and prosper.
Perhaps you live in Amish country, but for the rest of us, our options of travel today are no longer limited to horse and buggy.
“Interesting theory since it was the railroads that expanded our population center and allowed our country to grow and prosper.”
True, and it was whale oil industry that helped develop the northeast states; do you also think we should be using government funds to re-establish/re-develop/advance the whaling industry?
Which is why they hate it so much. Sprawl is “unsustainable”. Travel will only be allowed between “smart growth” zones, as dictated by the Wildlands Project plan.
“According to the United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, rail and mass transit are considerably more subsidized on a per passenger-mile basis by the federal government than other forms of transportation; the subsidy varies year to year, but exceeds $100 dollars (in 2000 dollars) per thousand passenger-miles, compared to subsidies around $10 per thousand passenger-miles for aviation (with general aviation subsidized considerably more per passenger-mile than commercial aviation), subsidies around $4 per thousand passenger-miles for intercity buses, and automobiles being a small net contributor through the gas tax and other user fees rather than being subsidized.[74”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak#Public_funding