Re: Taken For A Ride

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

"Richo" <richardc@tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Why - as I've indicated in a previous thread- is that whole urbanised mass
> of NE USA not covered in high-speed rail lines like similarly densely
> populated parts of Europe and Asia are?

It was, but the interurbans went under to automobile competition
decades before the so called "conspiracy" is supposed to have
occurred, due to ordinary surface roads being "all weather" hard paved
by local and state governments. 

A lot of city streetcar systems also went under at time as well.

Cheers,

Bill