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Randal O'Toole on Wisconsin Rail Projects

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Uploaded by on Mar 26, 2010

Randal O'Toole critques the cost and environmental impact of two proposed rail projects in Southeast Wisconsin. O'Toole is a Cato Institute Senior Fellow working on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues and recently was in Wisconsin for a series of forums.

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  • Problem is working out the amount of subsidies given to each. Do you count the billions paid for in free airports for airlines as an aviation subsidy? Not typically, and it's probably been excluded here. Do you count below-average taxation on oil based fuel airlines and cars benefit by, a subsidy through lost revenue, as a subsidy? How about the continous expansion and additions to major Routes and Interstates that get too crowded as they are? The figures are easy to twist.

  • Subsidies per passenger-mile sure do make cars look good. I wonder what the ACTUAL SUBSIDY AMOUNTS are...

    Cars are getting greener, but they still take up the same space on the road. And again, when you use the passenger-mile math, cars look better...until you consider that in that time period people have been using cars more, and using public transit less.

    That's "passenger-mile" for you. The sheer number of people driving cars skews the "passenger-mile" math in favor of cars.

  • I wouldn't mind seeing a coast to coast tubed mag lift across the continental US though.

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