Michael Moore: Goodbye, GM
This is one of Moore’s suggestions to Obama on what to do now that we the taxpayers own GM .. “Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds. They have had these high speed trains for nearly five decades — and we don’t even have one! The fact that the technology already exists for us to go from New York to L.A. in 17 hours by train, and that we haven’t used it, is criminal. Let’s hire the unemployed to build the new high speed lines all over the country. Chicago to Detroit in less than two hours. Miami to DC in under 7 hours. Denver to Dallas in five and a half. This can be done and done now” – Amen brother .. read more
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As one who suffers from petit claustrophobia, and thus cannot fly, all of my travel around the U.S. (which has been extensive) has been by train and bus.
As a long-time Amtrak patron, I cannot agree more with Moore. Even were the airline industry not in such a bad state both financially and vis-a-vis public attitudes, there would be good reason to do as Moore suggests, and I have advocated for this for at least two decades.
Bravo. Moore is once again on-target.
Peace.
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