Shipping Big Iron & Rail Right-Of-Way Abandonment

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Wed Mar 6 07:27:48 2002

At 03:41 PM 3/5/02 -0600, you wrote:
>As for the environmentalists, the fact that they never picked up on rail
>travel as the most environmentally responsible way of shipping over land
>has floored me. It's been proven time after time after time that moving
>goods overland via rail is the MOST environmentally friendly way of
>shipment over long distances. It takes much less fuel to move items over
>rail than rubber.

Don't get me started on this... Most of the american environmentalists
that I know own SUV's.

I know of one instance when a large study of the options available for
21st century ground transportation was commissioned by the DOT; a very
capable researcher was chosen to do it, but after he had begun he was told
to specifically leave out any public mass transportation options (he had
included that option in his proposal). It was later known that DOT officials
could not afford to have a study that recommended such options
because they were owned by Detroit. This was in the Reagan-Bush
years.


carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 07:27:48 GMT