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U.S. High-Speed Rail: Time to Hop Aboard or Be Left Behind

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U.S. High-Speed Rail: Time to Hop Aboard or Be Left Behind

In recent months, several conservative governors have rejected federal funds to begin constructing high-speed rail lines in their states. But a high-speed rail advocate argues that such ideologically driven actions are folly, as other U.S. states and countries around the world are moving swiftly to embrace a technology that is essential for competitive 21st-century economies.

Driving to Destruction: Failure of the Public Transportation Sector to Adapt to Changing Circumstances

By Jerry_Toman on July 23, 2009 Comments Off on Driving to Destruction: Failure of the Public Transportation Sector to Adapt to Changing Circumstances airplane, assembly line, automobile, Car culture, car-pooling, catalytic refining, coal, electric vehicle, EV, Ford, General Motors, global warming, Great Lakes, green economy, horse, hybrids, ICE, internal combustion engine, interstate highway system, invisible hand, light rail, low density housing, minibus, Mississippi River, Ohio, passenger van, petroleum industry, PHEV, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, public transportation sector, radar warning system, River Boats, road hazard detection radar, rush hour pricing, Standard Oil, steam engine, steam-engine propulsion, stop-and-go traffic, Streetcar, suburb, telecommuting, tin-lizzies, traffic congestion, traffic jam, trains, transportation system, Work-at-home Wednesday

Driving to Destruction: Failure of the Public Transportation Sector to Adapt to Changing Circumstances

By Jerry J. Toman, ScM

This, the fourth article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the issue of our car centric culture; how it has shaped our society and on ways we can shake ourselves free from this unsustainable dependence on spread out cities built around single occupancy vehicles (or SOVs).