Putting America Back on Track: The Case for Public Rail Ownership, is a short (11 minute) overview of the many flaws, pitfalls, and drawbacks of the privatel...
Guy uses our roads of example for public access. But come Oklahoma were they have been privatized our roads and working on doing all of them. It the nightmare he has invasion. What really fucked up is they are owned by foreign company.
Exactly they are shit and raised the cost of the tolls. I live near the Tulsa area you can’t get to many places conveniently without taking a toll road. And they are shit.
Roads are stupid expensive and receive ridiculous subsidies to stay operational. This is one of the most annoying things people get wrong about transportation, apparently roads don’t have to pay for themselves (and rarely do) but rail must turn a profit (it does sometimes) despite rail being exponentially better for transportation. Nobody wants to be near a highway, but everyone wants to be near a train station (and I don’t think the racists who don’t want trains have ever ridden one).
Guy uses our roads of example for public access. But come Oklahoma were they have been privatized our roads and working on doing all of them. It the nightmare he has invasion. What really fucked up is they are owned by foreign company.
Oklahoma’s roads are notoriously terrible. Even the expensive toll roads aren’t great.
Exactly they are shit and raised the cost of the tolls. I live near the Tulsa area you can’t get to many places conveniently without taking a toll road. And they are shit.
Roads are stupid expensive and receive ridiculous subsidies to stay operational. This is one of the most annoying things people get wrong about transportation, apparently roads don’t have to pay for themselves (and rarely do) but rail must turn a profit (it does sometimes) despite rail being exponentially better for transportation. Nobody wants to be near a highway, but everyone wants to be near a train station (and I don’t think the racists who don’t want trains have ever ridden one).