This might be a first: The New York Times is reporting that the lack of trains and mass transit is a liability for the South.
Here's the excerpt: "Atlanta has among the worst traffic in the country, but unlike many of the other regions with packed roads- - Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington- - Atlanta has a weak mass-transit sysem. Even Los Angeles, with its notorious traffic, is expanding public transportation.
"The absence of good train and bus options across much of the South is a flip side of its lower taxes."
The lack of trains not only a liability for the South, but any area of the country without trains.
But the fight still goes on, inch by difficult inch.
http://abc7chicago.com/travel/plan-for-amtrak-service-from-chicago-to-rockford-on-hold/509282/
http://wqad.com/2015/01/26/gov-rauners-spending-freeze-results-in-review-of-quad-city-amtrak-project/#comment-36706
Any idea when we'll get miles instead of inches?
Posted by: David Lubic | February 08, 2015 at 08:20 PM