Yes to High Speed Rail!
Culture, obama 4:17 AM
To those who think it's always bad news about the president:
Drawnlines says yes to High-speed Rail!
Frankly, the president hit this one right on the nose.
We have been getting our ass kicked by Japan, then Europe, now China for DECADES in the area of transportation. Japan's bullet train revolutionized long distance travel in their country in the 1980s. European rail travel brought Europeans closer together than they had ever been before in the 1990s. And in the past few years, China has pushed forward with perhaps the most ambitious mass transit lines in the history of our Earth.
In making these advancements, the world has created jobs, improved efficiency and productivity, controlled pollution, and managed growth concentration and urban sprawl. These governments have been able to do so by making mass transit a priority, and proving that it is a priority by putting their money where their mouth is.
We simply have not. It is long since time we did.
The transportation of this nation is directly related to its security and economic prosperity. Eisenhower knew this well, hence the interstate system that revolutionized travel in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, it is time to take one more step forward as a nation. So long as he utilizes the federal government efficiently and effectively on the subject of mass transit improvements, you can be sure - this blog has the president's back on this issue.
To be clear, I cannot help but implore the president to make prudent and bold decisions on this and other projects. May he do as he has pledged and allot funding and resources where they are needed and practical, without regard to partisan politics. Also, may this be only the first of several bold moves to get America moving again.
Despite our honest and substantive differences on many issues, this one has a bullseye on it. Hopefully we can find even more to agree on down the road.
Bravo, Mr. President.
Drawnlines says yes to High-speed Rail!
Frankly, the president hit this one right on the nose.
We have been getting our ass kicked by Japan, then Europe, now China for DECADES in the area of transportation. Japan's bullet train revolutionized long distance travel in their country in the 1980s. European rail travel brought Europeans closer together than they had ever been before in the 1990s. And in the past few years, China has pushed forward with perhaps the most ambitious mass transit lines in the history of our Earth.
In making these advancements, the world has created jobs, improved efficiency and productivity, controlled pollution, and managed growth concentration and urban sprawl. These governments have been able to do so by making mass transit a priority, and proving that it is a priority by putting their money where their mouth is.
We simply have not. It is long since time we did.
The transportation of this nation is directly related to its security and economic prosperity. Eisenhower knew this well, hence the interstate system that revolutionized travel in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, it is time to take one more step forward as a nation. So long as he utilizes the federal government efficiently and effectively on the subject of mass transit improvements, you can be sure - this blog has the president's back on this issue.
To be clear, I cannot help but implore the president to make prudent and bold decisions on this and other projects. May he do as he has pledged and allot funding and resources where they are needed and practical, without regard to partisan politics. Also, may this be only the first of several bold moves to get America moving again.
Despite our honest and substantive differences on many issues, this one has a bullseye on it. Hopefully we can find even more to agree on down the road.
Bravo, Mr. President.
Posted by Nick Stone
on 4:17 AM.
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