US High-Speed Rail Map Shows How New Plans Might Work

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3. The irony of that is that with so many

Flight cutbacks, there won’t be flights where the rails were supposed to go.

And would-be rail passengers aren’t the only ones getting screwed over these days. Not only are smaller towns and cities in danger of losing their bus service, but the convenient, centrally-located bus stations in big cities are being bought up and torn down by deep-pocketed real estate speculators.

“Sewer socialism” used to be a non-partisan consensus a lifetime ago, where cities and counties would own certain parts of infrastructure for the common good. That idea went down the toilet with the rise of the Reagansuts and the (fibber)tarians and their reflexive hostility to anything government-owned.