Leftfield

Stimulus Puts Railroads on Fast Track to the Future

Government spending is so far above any reasonable level with associated coercion and cronyism that I am almost always in opposition. At least here, along with whatever pittance for real infrastructure upgrades hidden in the pork bill, is some benefit.

My college daughters use trains and buses a lot. Detroit had light rail (trolleys) ripped up in their heyday to get people into cars with the attendant sprawl we're now stuck with. User-friendly mass transit can help us back to some rationality. Although, like defense, government-contracted projects have become mind-numbingly over-expensive. If we're going to have pork, this isn't the worst of it.