...this presentation at the Cato Institute.
https://www.cato.org/events/romance-rails-why-passenger-trains-we-love-are-not-transportation-we-need
Here is a synopsis:
More time, I'll watch more of it.
https://www.cato.org/events/romance-rails-why-passenger-trains-we-love-are-not-transportation-we-need
Here is a synopsis:
The panel discussion runs for an hour and a half. I watched the first twenty minutes. While some might expect any presentation by the Cato Institute to be a passenger train "bashing", this appears to be otherwise.Romance of the Rails: Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need
Book Forum
October 10, 2018
11:30AM to 1:30PM EDT
Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute
Featuring the author Randal OToole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Art Guzzetti, Vice President of Policy, American Public Transportation Association; Jim Mathews, President, Rail Passengers Association; and Marc Scribner, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; moderated by Jason Kuznicki, Editor, Cato Institute.
Like many Americans, Randal OToole loves passenger trains, yet he acknowledges that intercity passenger trains and outside of the New York region urban rail transit play little role in American life today. The replacement of passenger trains with cars, buses, and airplanes is similar to many other recent technological replacements: word processors replacing typewriters, calculators replacing slide rules, telephones replacing telegraphs, and cell phones replacing land lines. However, only for passenger trains has the government spent billions of dollars a year attempting to turn back the clock and slow that replacement. OTooles book Romance of the Rails asks why this is so and whether passenger rail has a significant role to play in the future. Art Guzzetti, an advocate for urban rail transit; Jim Mathews, an advocate for intercity passenger trains; and Marc Scribner, an advocate for free-market transportation, will offer their comments on the book.
More time, I'll watch more of it.