When driving becomes too expensive, people will use alternated modes, trains, buses, bikes etc. But those alternate modes have to be in place. Otherwise the problem worsens.

Simply dropping the name of the lead contractor for the Big Dig, answers the profit question. Billions in overruns, no questions asked. Bechtel.

It might be argued that commerce is enhanced through road spending, but that would be true of investing trillions into other modes of transportation, too.

There is a plan to have train service from the SouthCoast Massachusetts area to Boston, but the forces preventing it are very powerfull. $20 Billion for a big dig came easily, but a few million for train service is too expensive.

It’s only a matter of time though. Unless we wait too long, then it won’t matter any more.

http://alaskabikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/safety-is-sexy.html

FYI, you know you’re getting older when you look at a pretty girl and think “I wonder if she’d like to meet my son.”