How Not to Save the Planet
26th September 2019
Environmentalists love their trains. Apparently, the cutting edge of 19th-century technology is the solution to our transportation problems. The City of Austin recently spent about $150 million on a commuter rail system. This expenditure has reduced traffic congestion approximately 0 percent. If you stand next to I-35 during rush hour, more people will pass you in one minute than ride the train all day. A while ago, I was stopped at a railroad crossing for one of these trains. When it went by, I could see that there were fewer people in the train than cars stopped for it. It was only for a short time, no longer than a long traffic light. Still, that means that a couple of dozen cars were idling so 20 people could ride the train. If you multiply that by every railroad crossing in the city, that means that more gas is being wasted and more CO2 being generated by the idling vehicles than if those twenty people had driven their cars.
September 27th, 2019 at 08:53
Does anyone know why libs love trains so much? The crazier the train, the more they love it. It doesn’t bother them in the least that nobody is riding the train. (In fact, libs probably avoid the train more than most. Maybe they hope everybody else will ride the train and reduce the traffic for their Prius?)