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Old Posted Aug 12, 2019, 9:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Northern Light View Post
The question is how those people should be moved.
No it isn't that easy and the government works for us, not the other way around.



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Now, in a world of unlimited money falling from trees, I would certainly contemplate replacing the existing highway system with considerable more transit and fewer lanes of highway. But that is simply grossly impractical in scope and scale.
Where rail costs can easily approach a billion per mile, costs is certainly factored in. When mass transit has fewer people, the efficiency argument quickly looses steam but yet we can compare the costs per mile which is a much fairer comparison than a per person measurement.