Well, if America continues to government-fund airports and airlines more heavily than we fund trains (no kidding, government subsidies to air travel exceed Amtrak’s funding); if we continue to force passenger trains to exist as second-class citizens on the freight rail network, so that they can’t run on time; well, then they won’t work.
If on the other hand we acted like a normal, respectable country, passenger trains would work just fine.
Dumb dumb article: it’s wildly illogical. From the fact that trains are not currently working, he concludes that “Passenger rail is almost certainly never going to work again”. Complete non-sequiter. The lending market is not currently working. That means it will NEVER WORK AGAIN, according to this author. A bridge collapsed in Minnesota. Therefore there will NEVER BE A BRIDGE THERE AGAIN. What an idiot!
