(Source: Railway Age column by William C. Vantuono, June 2, 2015)
NEW YORK — Conventional wisdom in our industry tends to focus on ignorance on the part of politicians and passenger train opponents as the main reason why Amtrak is forced to exist on a starvation diet, or why trying to build a high-speed rail system is much like trying to build a nuclear waste dump. But our national problem is not ignorance, as Adam Gopnik points out in a May 15, 2015 essay that, at least for me, is a real eye-opener.
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