I think it's just subsidizing the construction of them. Didn't get that far into the detail. Good question. I would hope somebody would find a way to profit off them and just needs a lift on the initial capital investment.
Yes, this bitch has tons of common sense--
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Yes, this bitch has tons of common sense--
Kamala Harris says you can track racial and environmental injustice by counting trees in a neighborhood
If you live in a neighborhood in America without trees, chances are, you're facing racial injustice. That's the assumption being made after Vice President
I suppose if you're talking about Plains states you may need to count RVs.
Kamala Harris's approval rating falls to 28%, a historic low for any modern vice president
Biden hit another all-time low in the same USA Today/Suffolk poll at 38% approval. The closest comparable for Harris is former VP Dick Cheney in 2007.www.yahoo.com
Yes Americans have great faith in these people. Let's give them more money
The left screwed the pooch letting AOC and The Squad set the narrative. Midterms will be a disaster. If they pivot more to the center there's plenty of time for the party to recover imo. Dump the social spending bill. Temper the identity politics. People like the infrastructure bill. The party can still do well, and use that time to groom someone else to run in her place. My 2 cents
Oh, you can be sure someone will profit off the government largess. And it will be those evil "rich".
You've got chutzpa, I'll give you that.
Spending money the right way creates jobs. I probably have more confidence in our federal agencies than you do, but spending will create jobs. I do hope it's done accountably, efficiently, and transparently. Dare to dream
I have no idea why you'd think government can spend or manage money effectively.
I suspect there were far more trains and tracks 100 years ago. At least in the midwest. For passenger travel at least.
Should have passed weeks ago, or has it been months now since the Senate passed it?
Kamala Harris's approval rating falls to 28%, a historic low for any modern vice president
Biden hit another all-time low in the same USA Today/Suffolk poll at 38% approval. The closest comparable for Harris is former VP Dick Cheney in 2007.
Yes Americans have great faith in these people. Let's give them more money
Well, yeah. That's why i think Amtrak really only matters in the NE. Everywhere else it's for shits and giggly vacations.
Trains are still ideal for heavy bulk transit. If you had anything to eat today that was made with wheat or corn, it's 90% likely that it traveled by train at some point in time.
20 hours. Pffft. You can drive faster.
I am all for an Interurban system like that was in place 100 years ago. Or, at least some point-to-point direct connections. You don't need locomotives for that type of system.
I'd much rather take a 2 hour train ride from Chicago to Indianapolis than fly.
Yes, but his brand of family leave is 2 gay men choosing to adopt. Whetever they want to choose to do and where do the rights of the adoptees come in to play? Whatever on all of that. He took a high profile job because of basically he is gay , that is his biggest qualification. It isnt like he suddenly became pregnant and needed time off. If he can't schedule this and he is in charge of transportation? oh wait how well is that going?
What runs along the border of Boyle Heights? The 5, 10, 101 fwys.The quote below sums up the problem. Blighted neighborhoods were chosen as a form of urban renewal. What determined blight?
This is a ‘melting pot’ area and is literally honeycombed with diverse and subversive racial elements. It is seriously doubted whether there is a single block in the area which does not contain detrimental racial elements … It is hazardous residential territory and is accorded a general medial red grade – Original FHA evaluator report for Boyle Heights, California
Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality
From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating black and white neighbourhoods, US city development has a long and divisive historywww.theguardian.com
Roads were the tool used to eliminate Black working poor neighborhoods which Whites called blight. That doesn't mean every inch of interstate had this problem. Certainly not. But wherever possible redlined districts were sought for removal. Redlining was a racist policy, is that fair to say? So targeting redlined neighborhoods is somehow clean from any racism? Add in the fact redlining depressed home and business values in these districts and it is clear the residents were screwed.
And back to Pete's point, again the man who made the claim in the book worked for Moses for a number of years. What makes everyone so convinced he must be lying about the overpasses?
Another "View from CVS" post, huh? This is some HVAC level insight. Couldn't find a tandem tho?
Seems like you have a problem with him being gay.
Nah, your stupidity says more about you.
It’s not about the roads, it’s about the cars. Thank Henry Ford and his Model T for the American Highway system. The Model T brought car ownership to the masses. Before that, cars were a plaything for the rich. Other manufacturers followed suit and car ownership soon became available to almost every American. They soon used the cars to get to work instead of public transit. Public transit started to wane here in the 30’s. Then along came the post war suburban housing boom and then we needed modern highways to serve suburbia.I have never visited Europe, how do they run their highway system without going through cities? It appears Ike liked that idea, not going into cities:
The President referred to a previous conversation with General Bragdon. He went on to say that the matter of running Interstate routes through the congested parts of the cities was entirely against his original concept and wishes; that he never anticipated that the program would turn out this way. He pointed out that when the Clay Committee Report was rendered, he had studied it carefully, and that he was certainly not aware of any concept of using the program to build up an extensive intra-city route network as part of the program he sponsored. He added that those who had not advised him that such was being done, and those who had steered the program in such a direction, had not followed his wishes.
How do you know an act is benign? It sounds like there can never be racism without admission of racism. Even in 1963 very very few people would admit to carrying out an act because of racism.
Ike focused on military logistics. One of the purposes of Ike’s road system was internal movement of military units. The PR signs posted throughout the construction areas included references to national defense highways. The Act authorizing construction also noted defense purposes. In one of Ike’s books, he wrote about his 1919 experience and the difficulties in the coast to coast convoy he commanded. Thus, Ike intended an inter-urban system.
Amy K is someone I seriously would have considered voting for. She talks the progressive talk at times, but I think she’s a blue dog to her core.
First of all, bigotry is not the same as racism and the two words should not be used interchangeably .
