Lack of trains now liability for regions, new article says

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.

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[David Lubic]

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?