Yet another report; this one from US PIRG Educational Fund. While it does support the underlying aspect of the unsustainable automobile, it is nothing more than another study to say things are better in other parts of the world and does nothing to change the cause of our land use crisis.
This report suggests that we need to build a "high speed" rail network by 2050. One needs to keep this term in perspective. In the 1800s America built steam locomotives which pulled trains exceeding speeds of 90mph. Today's political push is to call a train traveling at a speed of 79mph: a "high speed" train. This bureaucratic line of rational is nauseating.
There is technology being developed that has computer simulated speeds of 4,500mph at a fraction of the cost of those 150 year old technology antiques.
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