[bonehead4freedom]

This is to make cars too expensive for the average citizen to own and operate forcing people onto public transportation. Why do the progressives push trains so much even when they don't make economic sense? To force people through TSA Checkpoints and to restrict and control movement. Once you have to take a bus,train,or plane to travel between cities or a bus to travel within a city then becomes easier to implement both an environmental and social credit system tied to an internal passport to allow or restrict travel based on some beaurcracts decision if your trip is really necessary or if your a security risk due to your inappropriate views.

[mass55th]

"Why do the progressives push trains so much even when they don't make economic sense?"

Not long ago, there was a thread on FR when Biden was pushing people to take the train. The problem is that trains don't go where you want them to, or where you need to go. I called Amtrak a while back, checking into getting the train from here in Central NY State, to visit my youngest son in Indiana. I'd need to arrive at Indianapolis. There were no trains that went that way.

My Dad worked on the New York Central Railroad for years...first as a laborer, and at the end of his career, he was a Track Foreman. He loved the railroad, and would be incensed to see the way things have gone. He retired not long after the New York Central split into Amtrak and Conrail.

My oldest son worked for about 7 years as a dispatcher for Conrail in Selkirk, New York. When they merged with Norfolk Southern, and CSX, his region expanded, and the workload increased to the point that he said dispatchers who'd been with the company for 20+ years, were going out with stress-related illnesses. He left not long afterward, because he couldn't see himself working under those conditions for the rest of his life. He's a computer geek, and has worked for an international company for several years now. And since the lockdown almost two years ago, he's been working from home. Sure beats fighting traffic in Albany, NY to get to work each day.