Revitalize rail system, reader says
Dear Editor:
Why billions of dollars for oversea sinkholes when a few dollars invested in the rapid transit system, utilizing the thousands of miles of rails lying dormant nationwide, that would create thousands of jobs and jolt the sluggish economy into prosperous times? The service would mean transportation, not from Pittsburgh to London, but from village to village throughout the state and country, like it used to be. That is, until the federal government nationalized the railroad industry and destroyed the world’s finest land transportation system.
We’ve had enough of the Conrail-Amtrak-airline-foreign aid boondoggles. We’ve wasted too much time and money trying to re-invent a mass transit system. Restore the mass railway concept to the successful tax-paying railroad industry and watch America’s creativity come alive.
Al Hopfer
Greensburg