"Most Americans won’t notice these lost opportunities. They don’t get out much or realize America’s growing backwardness. They don’t comprehend that a modern rail network, including high-speed rail, is a given in every populous advanced nation. They are stuck in 1970, when gas was cheap, when we had 100 million fewer people and less congested urban areas, when in many places it was like those car ads on television that show only one vehicle on an empty road. Somehow they think highways and airlines aren’t subsidized; they think many things that are not true, including this. Every transportation system is subsidized. In our case, we just have fewer choices. It’s an outrage that there are not frequent and fast trains linking, say, Phoenix and LA, Phoenix and Tucson. No, they’re happy to spend a huge portion of our lives stuck in traffic, changing the planet for the worse. Too bad that reality, in the form of oil scarcity and higher prices, increasing congestion and, ooops, climate change, will throttle these American delusions."
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Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Reblogging without further comment, because none is necessary.
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one thing i miss a lot about germany: i can bike or bus anywhere within the city and take the train anywhere else.
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^ Yep.
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Interesting to note the recent slew of obviously fake tumblr profiles (the pictures of attractive young women who seem to be speaking with Karl Rove’s hateful voice) appearing recently.
It’s as if they’re trying to sap the support of the movement by trying to make it appear as if (1) people who identify with the (attractive fake profile person) should also be dismissive of the movement, and (2) that there is a significant number of people opposing the movement, when in fact the opposite is true.
(Don’t take my word for it. Search for #occupy wall street as a hashtag and see the fake profiles populating the tumblr stream).
