[balrog666]

This entire article lies and lies by omission in practically every paragraph about past interstate highway development, the causes of urban pollution, and (easily fact checkable) history.

The discussion of costs is totally absurb; suburban right-of-ways, urban comdemnations, union contracting and workers, and the supporting infrastructures for subsidiary transportation, cargo-moving, and people-handling would be enormous, disruptive, expensive, and never-ending.

Like the current Amtrak white elephant, it would go nowhere; almost no one would use it by choice; it would be plagued by management malfeasance, union "efficiency", rampant corruption in all phases of construction and operation, endless taxpayer subsidies for cost-overruns and more mindless government propaganda to support it.

The 1880's are never coming back - get used to it.

[Moosilauke]

The discussion of costs is totally absurb; suburban right-of-ways, urban comdemnations, union contracting and workers, and the supporting infrastructures for subsidiary transportation, cargo-moving, and people-handling would be enormous, disruptive, expensive, and never-ending.

Exactly right! This is a chance to recreate the Boston "Big Dig" fiasco (where a $2 billion dollar project becomes a $15 billion dollar hole in the ground with no end in sight) on a national scale.