6 of 45

Disagree

Write now Article Tools

Page 3 of 6

mass transportation must have been of high value to in-city commuters during the recent era of 5 dollar per gallon gasoline prices. Some of the rail right of way was acquired at costs as high as a billion dollars per mile I believe-and that seemed very high in that quaint era of more common public financial responsibility than this dump a trillion dollar debt on the public time. The construction of non-fossil fuel for energy powered mass transportation systems could very well draw millions of daily commuters out of SUVs if the systems are safe and free.

While mass transportation systems operate at no charge to the public except in taxes it would be useful to study how the existing public financed highway system could be brought to a much lower operating cost basis. While the implicit problem of job and corporate occupational structure works against reform of any existing inefficient and expensive transportation system plainly the public interest in transforming inefficient transportation systems outweighs the factor of displacement of workers employed in targeted for obsolescence mass transportation infrastructure. The displaced workers should be provided help in transitioning to new occupational areas in additional new high-tech deficit reducing industries given especially encouragement from the public.

Reducing public highway costs and environmental damage could be accomplished by replacing highways with electric-mag-levitation air-cushion vehicles following in-line computer guided trails obviously-yet such a radical concept has little chance for actualization. A more feasible political goal would be to prioritize the development of electric cars and highway coating materials that let electric vehicles draw power directly from the highway surface. Probably 100 million Americans live in regions of perennial sunshine. It is inefficient to demand that the same transportation energy approaches be used in automobiles in Minnesota in January or Alaska as in Miami Beach in July or El Paso in August or January. Not even the inventors of the wheel would have been dumb enough to use a wheeled vehicle where a sled would be better, by inference modern mass transportation designers should exploit regional and local energy and transportation advantages instead of supporting a standard one-fuel system for everyone approach based on a nearly extinct fossil fuel resource now largely imported from abroad. The United States has 2 or 3% of the world's oil and uses perhaps 27%

• << previous page
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• next page >>

Add your voice

Know something about Public transportation should be free ?
We want to hear your view. Write now!