Originally Posted by FloggingSully  TW, roads aren't free. Rail works all over the world, I don't see why it can't work here. |
They can work in the States. It's simple: Too many Americans are a) obsessed with their cars; and b) a railroad system smells like socialism *gasp* to TW and his ilk.
A decent train system would do wonders for the US. However, people who've likely never been on one (paging TW) would complain that building a decent system (or upgrading the current one) costs too much cash. (Funnily, endlessly throwing money down the pit of larger and larger highways doesn't seem to bother these same people. Of course, they need more room to drive their sweet-as* Hummers and Expeditions to Wal-Mart!)
They're the same arguments against much public transportation--myopic, selfish, short-sighted, and misguided.