About My Transportation Obsession
I renamed my blog to "Transit Sleuth" because of the amount of researching I am doing. I also did so because I strongly believe that decisions made with the factual knowledge of historical events and operations of transportation all over the world and especially the United States is critical to one day acheiving what can be possible. The future of the US Transportation network; rail, air, road, river, and any other form, is hanging in the balance in these modern decades of being either a mediocrity among the world, or striving forward with a strong a capitalistic thrust as only our transit systems of the past ever displayed.
No one since has procurred or enabled, with almost 0 cost to the taxpayer, what the American Capitalists of the Guilded Age acheived. Over 200 thousand miles of railroad, mass transit systems, the invention of new technologies, and massive profits. Costing taxpayers next to nothing, if sometimes returning direct investments to them. Compared to today's subsidization of transit ventures we end up with rehashed right of way, cut budgets, under utilized corridors, untimely service, and a MASSIVE tax bill at the end of each year whether a service is used or not. The power of pull politics is crushing our ability as a nation of free individual citizens; entrepenuers, capitalists, venture capitalists, churchgoers, workers, white and blue collar workers, service sector specialists, all proud of themselves but unable to truly touch the industry.
This needs to change, liberty and freedom of the transportation markets can be enabled and SHOULD be enacted at the earliest opportunity.
For the sake of America and I might boldly add for the sake of the world!