Setting Goals Moving Forward
Getting There….
When did inefficiency become the norm?
The scenery through the Adirondack mountains was nothing less than magnificent…. I was on a 12 hour train ride from New York to Montreal.
Overseas, high speed, inexpensive, comfortable trains are commonplace.
Having another hour to kill while waiting for a south bound train to pass because there was only one set of tracks on a good portion of the route, I decided to ask the conductor a question.
Why can’t they upgrade the train system in the United States?
In China or europe a similar trip would be 3 1/2 hours long instead of the arduous 12 long hours.
His answer was. “Where’s the money supposed to come from”?
My answer: Jet Blue came from nowhere and was able to get the financing to build a huge airline in record time. Some thing or some entity is preventing the train system in our nation from competing with other forms of transportation fairly.
If trains were given a chance to compete in the free market system on equal footing with cars and air travel….
Financing it, would be the least problem.
