Public Transportation and Smart Growth

If present-day Americans could see the variety (and occasionally frequency) of long-distance passenger rail routes available in the mid-1960’s compared to now, they’d be amazed.

Leaving the Mid-West and Northeast Corridor aside, people would be amazed at the choices of routes they’d have: Minneapolis-St Paul direct to Kansas City. Houston to Dallas and Dallas—Fort Worth to Denver. Kansas City direct to New Orleans—just to name a few.

Amtrak is woefully under-funded and under constant attack by fibber-tarian (so-called Libertarian) ideologues and politicians drawn from the billionaire class.

It should be expanded and it’s aging long-distance rolling stock should be replaced.