Bush just keeps on ignoring railroads

Monday, July 31, 2006

Dave Zweifel writes in The Capital Times on the importance of railroads, but lack of federal attention in transportation plans:

The federal government's Transportation Department has just issued a "white paper" on reducing traffic congestion in the country and guess what? It doesn't include a word about how improvement of either passenger or freight rail in America might be able to help.

Once more, the powers-that-be in Washington are determined to put all the nation's transportation eggs essentially in one basket more and bigger highways with a small sop to improving some airport traffic control systems.