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Super Trains: Plans to Fix U.S. Rail Could End Road & Sky Gridlock
With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and maglev lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads.
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportati...
Let them fail?
While it's possible that the demise of the Detroit automakers will cause rail lines to sprout from the earth like mushrooms and send the public flocking to the bus, Bob Herbert of the New York Times describes a few other possible outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29herbert.htm...
Head-on train collision kills 12 in Los Angeles
So much for "going metro with the mayor" or "going green"... freight vs passenger trains really need to be on separate tracks ... cargo wins every time! still, fewer people dead than happens in car accidents every day.
my advice? don't sit in the first few cars on any train!
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_re_us/train_c...
