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Posted by WillD on Tue Jan 11 15:26:29 2011, in response to Re: PHOTOS: MBTA MPXpress Locomotive #010 In Delivery, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jan 11 15:05:41 2011. Stop equating the words European and best.European? What about Japan, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina? All of them use electrified commuter rail networks to greatly improve their effectiveness by blurring the line between subway and commuter rail operation. Europe flushes billions of euros on massive rail networks that only drain increasing hard to find capital. And we flush even more money down the toilet on our massive highway network. Except that while their massive rail networks result in some of the lowest expenditures on transportation and services as a fraction of household income, our household expenditure on transportation is the greatest in the developed world. Not only does our government spend FAR more on our highway networks, but our citizens then have to spend that much more money to simply utilize those networks. Meanwhile what spending does go into mass transit is wasted ineffectually on redundant subway extensions and commuter systems whose operating practices have not changed in 40 years. We spend a tremendous amount of money on transportation and get virtually nothing for our investment. If that isn't the very definition of flushing money away, then what would you call it? |
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