Playing With Trains
25th April 2009
Turns out that trains are like organic food — a costly option being foisted on the public by people who would like to cancel about the last century of progress. (How did these guys steal the name “progressive”, anyway?)
The enduring problem of “mass transit” is that it’s inefficient from the point of view of the passenger — it takes you from point A, which is probably not where you live, to point B, which is probably not where you want to be, at a time that is convenient to somebody else. Thus the enduring popularity of individualized transportation like automobiles, despite constraints like air pollution and traffic congestion; the history of America is proof that people will put up with quite a bit of inconvenience to get freedom.