One day, we’ll wonder what all the fuss about high-speed rail was about
Financially unsound, legally dubious, an aesthetic blight, an engineering hazard – opposition to high-speed rail?
Nope. It’s what critics said about the Golden Gate Bridge throughout the decade before construction began in 1933....
It’s difficult for us to imagine the long-term benefits of big projects during their infancy because we tend to define history through snapshots of finality, while forgetting the struggle that went into what we now see as iconic American achievements.
Arguments against rail travel have not changed much over the decades, yet when they come online we often wonder how we ever did without them.