Re: San Jose's Light Rail after 25 years----inefficient etc
Author: DUH
Date: 12-28-2012 - 13:38
None of this needs to be this complicated! Compare France to CA. As the world's population has grown in the last 50 years, a place like France has developed around a well built transit system that continues to expand and build upon what past generations have already done. The population reflects that. CA on the other hand has done precisely the same thing, but via freeways instead. Now a bunch of politicians and choo choo buffs want to "fix" our over-crowded freeways by forcing a transportation system down our throats despite 50 years of history and development around a different model of transportation. Forcing high speed rail into a history not built around it will be about as successful as forcing capitalism on Russia has been....great in theory, but oblivious to history.