Reason.tv: Bob Poole and Adrian Moore: Why Highways Beat High-Speed Rail

What are the best ways to get America moving in terms of transportation?

At Reason Weekend 2011, Reason Foundation's annual donor event, Adrian Moore and Robert Poole spoke about the right ways to create a 21st-century transportation policy. Moore takes heavily documented aim at high-speel rail projects as tax-funded boondoggles that will certainly fail to hit ridership goals. Poole argues that pie-in-the-sky projects such as high-speed rail divert limited federal funds from much-needed infrastructure improvement and fail to tap into private capital funds that could help expand the nation's transportation network.

About 45 minutes. Filmed by Alex Manning and Paul Detrick; edited by Joshua Swain.

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Highways would be that much better if they would remove the gift to insurance companies that is the speed limit.

[ListenEllipse]

You could just privatize all the roads, highways, and railways then let the situation work itself out on the free market. They we wouldn't have to engage in any of these silly debates of trains vs cars.

[Pro Libertate]

Rail is for pussies. Americans won't regain our greatness until we each are driving nuclear-powered tanks. I don't mean SUVs, I mean tanks. With tanks, maintaining roads will be much less important. Road fatalities will be greatly reduced (excluding a possible increase in pedestrian fatalities). By using nuclear-powered engines, oil use will diminish.

And tanks are good for defense. If the U.S. is ever threatened with invasion, the military could provide stockpiled modules to convert consumer tanks into full tanks. Nobody is going to invade a country full of millions of nuclear powered tanks.

[cynical]

Fuck your tanks. We each need to be sealed in power armor that provides for all of our biological and cybernetic needs.

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[Flex Nasty B.I.G.]

It's long puzzled me that Reason even takes a position on rail vs roads, let alone such a strong one. Why not instead take the same position you take on everything else - to remove the subsidies and let the market pick winners and losers?

[LameReason]

Can the boy bitch of the Kochs do anything else besides make fun of high-speed rail?? GOD you people are the most worthless piece of Kochs SHIT.. keep working for money Adrian you stupid fat boy of Daddy koch

[J.E.C.]

Could it be because roads are free at the point of use, gasoline is subsidized and cars thus crowd out all other options?

Pretending that the triumph of the car is a triumph of the market is silly and ignorant.

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