http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/12/15/new-hsr-nec/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/12/15/new-hsr-nec/#comment-76 Norman Brown Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:18:19 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.wordpress.com/?p=342#comment-76 Privatism can only work to the extent what you are proposing resembles a competitive market. There is nothing in this form or substance that remotely resembles a competitive marketplace. The key, valuable concept it competition not privatization. This proposal is an ideological trojan horse meant to belittle all public mass transit operations. Was AMTRAK's fare box recover rate so much worse than Lehman Brothers? Privatism can only work to the extent what you are proposing resembles a competitive market. There is nothing in this form or substance that remotely resembles a competitive marketplace. The key, valuable concept it competition not privatization. This proposal is an ideological trojan horse meant to belittle all public mass transit operations. Was AMTRAK’s fare box recover rate so much worse than Lehman Brothers?

]]> http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/12/15/new-hsr-nec/#comment-75 Loren Petrich Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:46:28 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.wordpress.com/?p=342#comment-75 I find it rather difficult to take seriously -- there is the serious question of acquiring the real estate for such a line. However, running trains or even building track seems potentially feasible for a private consortium. I find it rather difficult to take seriously — there is the serious question of acquiring the real estate for such a line. However, running trains or even building track seems potentially feasible for a private consortium.

]]> http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2008/12/15/new-hsr-nec/#comment-74 Wil Skelton Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:04:21 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.wordpress.com/?p=342#comment-74 I am so interested to see that news report. I am admittedly from the deep south (arkansas/ mississippi). A privately built HSR line is very appealing to me any where, but especially if it doesnt involve our government going in to debt deeper. On the other hand, we are so deep any way if we could reasonably throw up lines in the worst needed areas, like Cali, the north east, the texas T- bone...Id be game. Maybe it would be the beginning to the change in public opinion. I am so interested to see that news report. I am admittedly from the deep south (arkansas/ mississippi). A privately built HSR line is very appealing to me any where, but especially if it doesnt involve our government going in to debt deeper. On the other hand, we are so deep any way if we could reasonably throw up lines in the worst needed areas, like Cali, the north east, the texas T- bone…Id be game. Maybe it would be the beginning to the change in public opinion.

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