neocone wrote:Asking the government to enables anyone to travel from A to B regardless of their social status is nothing short of communism.
Agreed.
neocone wrote:Asking the government to enables anyone to travel from A to B regardless of their social status is nothing short of communism.
neocone wrote:The best way is let market forces sort out who can drive and cannot drive and stop promoting unnecessary commuting (public transportation eliminates the incentive for telecommuting for employers...). Asking the government to enables anyone to travel from A to B regardless of their social status is nothing short of communism.
Peepers wrote:We've got what we paid for in this country, and now we're paying for it.
perdition79 wrote:Doing away with federal subsidies on mass transportation will be an important step toward re-localization.
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The end of travel
High oil prices are crippling airlines and travellers alike and we may only be at the start of a new, global class divide between the stranded and the mobile alike.
Biden "one of my very best friends," says much of their friendship was forged through those long Amtrak rides.
"Some mornings he would ride down on the train and literally buy the entire car and conductors coffee," says Claire DeMatteis, who worked for Biden for 10 years and sometimes rode the train with him. He'd get up and say, " 'Anybody want coffee?' And anybody who wanted got coffee."
He talks to passengers. He talks to the folks who take his tickets. He talks policy and family and everything in between. If he's waiting for a train, he talks to the folks at the ticket counter and to the shoeshine guy and the redcap guy and to Johnson, the newsstand cashier -- which is why, when Johnson found out Joe was joining Obama's ticket, she called her mother to brag about "my friend."
He throws parties for retiring conductors, and once had a crewman serenaded by bagpipes. For Biden's first day back at work following two operations for brain aneurysms in 1988, he took the train, naturally. "The engineer saluted him with a longer-than-usual toot of the train's whistle," UPI reported at the time.
"He used to have a picnic at his house for the train crews," says Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), another frequent Amtraker.
High-speed rail has emerged as the cornerstone of Obama's ambitious attempt to remake the nation's transportation agenda, which for half a century has focused primarily on building highways and roads. Nearly half of the $48 billion in stimulus money for transportation projects will go toward rail, buses and other non-highway projects, including $1.3 billion for Amtrak and its successful rapid rail service, Acela. The Transportation Department also would receive $2 billion more under Obama's proposed 2010 budget, most of it for rail and aviation improvements.
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