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Rethink A Rail System

Posted by toddsmith at 4/18/2008 4:49PM

The cold war era policy to expand highways has destroyed older American cities by slicing up neighborhoods and contributing to an unsustainable use of energy for shipping and transporting. Let's redesign how we move stuff and ourselves with greater efficiency. The cost of gas for cars and planes will only go higher. Instead of leasing toll roads to foreign companies, we urgently need to build a nationwide high speed rail system designed to serve people by saving energy and the environment.

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