Excellent comments, thank you. Michael Moore’s toy train fantasy is a pretty easy target obviously, but still fun to write.
eon: Great comment. Watching Moore working for the Obama administration and trying to build a national high-speed rail system with unionized labor and through the yards of environmentalists would be a great Ayn Rand parody idea. Is Roger working on any scripts?
Guvinoff: The Havana to Washington high-speed rail line would be perfect for bringing in Cuban doctors and administrators to help us with our new health care system.
JKB: Excellent link – I read that study right after I submitted the article. I’ve always wondered how riding a subway can be considered environmentally friendly behavior, when the system itself looks an awful lot like heavy industry.
The other new development was the London Underground strike – imagine spending billions dollars on a transport system only to have a bunch of disgruntled workers shut it down so they can get a wage increase – in the middle of a recession no less.
