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We should try to make good trains

We should try to make good trains

Quality service provision, not make-work jobs

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Matthew Yglesias
Jun 24, 2021
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The tragedy of trains in America is that instead of treating trains as technology that does something useful, they tend to be treated on the right as a culture war totem to be denigrated and on the left as a job-sink that’s supposed to generate make-work employment.

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