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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

I'm sure from some of my posts I would appear to be against mass transit,
but that isn't quite true.  I'd like to see us develop a high-speed commuter
rail between major cities.  As much trouble as the airline industry is in
and with the terrorist potential, I think high-speed rail should be pursued.
If I could take an autotrain (yes, I want my car) to DC in an hour or one to
NY in 3, I'd do that over flying easily.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Spero" <ses AT unc.edu>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] 'New' Urbanism?


> Thomas Beckett wrote:
>
> > My point was that faulting mass transit for not being profitable is a
> > fallacy.  I-40 does provide benefit, but it doesn't turn a profit
> > either.  At least a light rail line would provide some direct offset
> > to its costs.  And confer a different type of benefit that the
superslab.
>
> As much as I personally would benefit from the proposed Light Rail (I
> live in the heart of downtown Durham, and work at UNC), they are all
> hideously uneconomic vanity projects that wouldn't exist were it not for
> federal matching grants.
>
> For some background info, see:
>
> :Hobart Paper no. 140 Transport Policy: the Myth of Integrated Planning
> //John Hibbs 2001
> http://www.iea.org.uk/files/113.pdf
>
> The Thoreau Institute Urban Growth and Transportation Studies
> http://www.ti.org/urban.html
>
> Cato Policy Analysis 287 / ISTEA - A Poisonous Brew For American Cities
> / Randall O'Toole 1997http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-287.pdf
>
>
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