(Source: Railway Age, October 3, 2013)
NEW YORK — First, it’s critical to understand that today’s public transport — certainly, in any consistent, comprehensive, efficient form — would simply collapse without government support. I’ll bypass extremists’ fantasies of a nation of private tollways instead of freeways and public streets, and privately owned and operated airways systems and airports … and just leap to the basic issue of rail transit and Amtrak, forced to compete with these other modes with just a small fraction of the gusher of public support their competitors receive.
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