So Horace, you figure that the percentage is what matters… in other words, what’s a few billion dollars here and there, as long as it is less than we spend on legitimate transportation needs?
Religion, by the way, in the sense of being faith-based instead of reason- or fact-based, is what you seem to be proving.
That being said, there is obviously a place for mass transit, light rails, etc. It isn’t the concept of them that is flawed, it is the execution of it. Even if they were at a modest loss, they trains can be worthwhile. After all, how much do we spend on the infrastructure for air travel? How about keeping streams and rivers in navigable condition?
Get rid of the pork, get rid of the “bridges to nowhere on wheels,” create some useful rail systems where they are actually needed, and you will see far less opposition to them.
