Government spends an estimated $350 billion to $500 billion a year supporting highways.
People and business spend another staggering $1 Trillion dollars a year on driving.
It's no wonder there's a money squeeze on funding trains and light rail.
But with train ridership bursting, and cities begging for more light rail, we will shortly understand that America cannot financially support two infrastructures at the same time. We will have to choose. Actually, we have already chosen: trains.
We could easily pay for $100 billion a year in trains, by starting to defund highways. The first step: stop third lanes on highways, stop building expensive overpasses, and stop any more four lane construction.
Photo: Kids at the Gogebic County Fair, U.P. Michigan.
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