From: 866013149e@interpring.com

Stephen Sprunk  writes:

>Notably, the sorts of improvements necessary to make passenger service
>viable are the same as what the railroads _already_ need to keep up with
>the existing demand for freight service.  And helping them with the
>latter would cost taxpayers _less_ than expanding and repairing highways
>every year for trucks.  It's only the anti-rail bigots in Congress (and,
>to be fair, the Teamsters' lobbyists lining their pockets) that prevent
>this win-win-win scenario from happening.

Don't locomotive engineers and conductors belong to the Teamsters these
days?


umar

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