[backhoe]

Regarding the "rail issue," here are some more sources:

-The Thoreau Institute Urban Growth and Transportation Studies--

has a lot of info & opinion refuting the "urban sprawl," "Lite rail/mass transit" and related items...

And more here:

-Independence Institute--"Rights" Research

Light Rail- Boon or Boondoggle? The Quest for the Holy Rail....

[Mr. Jeeves]

Bump.

[Doctor Stochastic]

And Medicare would only cost $10,000,000,000/year in 2000.

[dirtboy]

As for the promised rail system [public school system] [war on drugs] [--insert desired government program here--], it almost always turns out that there just isn't enough money to deliver on the promises - so the solution is to do more of what is failing - we simply haven't tried hard enough...

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[razorback-bert]

In Houston in 1980, we had a 5 year plan and a tax, then in '85 we had a new 5 year plan and a new tax. I left in 1989 and still no rail.

[tet68]

Same here in Atlanta. The cost of a fare keeps going up and ridership keeps going down. Doh!

[patj]

And this doesn't even mention that great boondoggle, "The Big Dig".