The US currently moves 38% of freight by rail vs. 10% in Europe. Take over the freight railroads to move people and there could be a 4x increase of the number of Trucks on the road. I don’t think passenger rail would is the environmental panacea the commies seem to believe.
That’s a really interesting statistic. Source?
well, I wasn’t looking at it as an environment thing — more like giving people more choice: car or plane or train.