[prolikewh0a]

Where's the funding going to come from? USA has no money for infrastructure. MTA is struggling in NYC. Seattle's light rail is going to be completed in 2041+ and is being paid through a regressive car tab tax. I think it's a pipe dream that rail or transit will ever be improved other than very modestly in the USA.

Plenty of money and land for pipelines though https://i.imgur.com/IdwIHQB.gif

[chiefalchemist]

In other words, if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas (i.e. pipelines for them) we'll have more money for mass transportation. The irony is, our love of personal transportation is foregoing our transition to trains and such.

[x220]

>if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas we'll have more money for mass transportation

how do you figure that?

[chiefalchemist]

Bump up to the comment I commented on. That said something along the lines of "but there's plenty of money for pilelines."

I wasn't figuring. I was summarizing and contexting.

[com2kid]

Seattle's light rail is coming online one station at a time. As each station is brought onboard, ridership explodes in the surrounding community.

Tokyo's railway was built up over more than a century, infrastructure takes time.

[provolone]

According to the article, this change should make rail cars cheaper.