Thread: electric cars are they the future?

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They have the trains figured out here. Our little hamlet sees about 100 trains a day on average. I rarely go downtown & back without getting stopped at least once by a train.

BTW: My Grandson likes to see the choo choo'z go zoom.

The freight railroads did exceptionally well last year when fuel prices were up; basically it's a pricing issuel. When it makes money and time sense the rails get the nod. Other times the truck transport makes more sense.

As for the passenger rail stuff, in Seattle they finally passed measure to build a "light rail" system after several failed attempts. The "do-gooders" finally scraped, cajoled, invented, whatever just enough votes. Once construction began so did the schedule delays, and the cost over runs, and the route reductions, and all the rest of the b.s. that happens on these kind of programs that promise more than they can ever deliver. They had the grand opening a couple months ago and had their largest ridership via the grandees that showed up. Since then the trains are almost empty. As so often happens the "do-gooders" come up with these great ideas......................ideas they want to force on others, not themselves. I'm sure it's too inconvenient for THEM! Let (make?) the peons use it! Did I mention they also didn't provide parking lots at the terminals? But they did put in bike racks! S.O.S.