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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

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4. For the same reason we lag behind the rest of the world in so many other things.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2015, 04:23 PM

May 2015

Not enough immediate profit. Or it would cut into current profits.
That is why we cant have nice things like Single Payer Health care, or bridges that don't fall down from old age, or living wage jobs, or reasonable paternity leave, or... You get the picture.

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Why can't America have high-speed trains? (xpost from GD) [View all] KamaAina May 2015 OP

Because the politicians in charge are too dumb ladjf May 2015 #1

Because airlines are more profitable.... daleanime May 2015 #2

This country's too big, elleng May 2015 #3

For the same reason we lag behind the rest of the world in so many other things. -none May 2015 #4