The new Chattanooga choo choo! Chewing thru our taxes that is!
In all seriousness, I think we as a nation made a big mistake getting away from rail freight and travel. Had we made a steady gain on improvement of rail services through the years it would also not have such a financial impact.
I feel that if we had a high speed mass freight rail system and removed long haul freight trucks from our Interstate Systems we would all be much safer and have ample room on our highways for the future.
Local feight excluded, segregating the freight transport from personal transportation and using the piggyback or container shipping by rail is the way we should be shipping our goods today instead of a truck with one load going from NY to CA.
I am more inclined to invest in a new freight rail system than personal transit at this time.