Monday, April 14, 2008

U.S. kills trains - U.K. builds

In the U.S.A., the carbon-auto puppets are busy killing rail travel:

...Senator McCain, throughout his career, has been very anti-rail, and in that respect “would be [even] worse than the present [Bush] administration,” whose Transportation Secretary Mary Peters (a big highway booster) has fought tooth and nail (as commission chairman) to block the pro-rail efforts of Weyrich and others allied with his 9-to-3 commission majority. - trains4america

While in the U.K. rail is showing some strength:

Britain is witnessing the dawn of a new era of rail travel as an unprecedented demand for environmentally friendly transport encourages people to take more train journeys than at any time since the Second World War. - The Independent