Save Our Trains Michigan
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http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/...686&ntpid=0
The federal government's Transportation Department has just issued a "white paper" on reducing traffic congestion in the country and guess what? It doesn't include a word about how improvement of either passenger or freight rail in America might be able to help.
Once more, the powers-that-be in Washington are determined to put all the nation's transportation eggs essentially in one basket more and bigger highways with a small sop to improving some airport traffic control systems.
The oversight drew a letter of protest from the president of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, George Chilson.
"While you are right to target congestion as a serious and growing national problem, we are dumbfounded that you failed even to mention rail in National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network," he wrote. "Neglect of rail both by federal policy and stage politics that it encourages is the primary reason that our nation continues to spend enormous amounts on transportation infrastructure without satisfactory results."
The federal government's Transportation Department has just issued a "white paper" on reducing traffic congestion in the country and guess what? It doesn't include a word about how improvement of either passenger or freight rail in America might be able to help.
Once more, the powers-that-be in Washington are determined to put all the nation's transportation eggs essentially in one basket more and bigger highways with a small sop to improving some airport traffic control systems.
The oversight drew a letter of protest from the president of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, George Chilson.
"While you are right to target congestion as a serious and growing national problem, we are dumbfounded that you failed even to mention rail in National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network," he wrote. "Neglect of rail both by federal policy and stage politics that it encourages is the primary reason that our nation continues to spend enormous amounts on transportation infrastructure without satisfactory results."
