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Article: The case for bus rapid transit. (Highways, Byways and Bylines)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Much has been written about America's love affair with the automobile. That's why Nieman Reports is devoting the bulk of this edition to highways. What has been overlooked has been America's love affair with electric trains--what I have called the "Lionel Complex." If the object of this passion were just model trains that speed around Christmas trees we could understand the pleasure that adults, as well as children, enjoy in running them. Unfortunately, the passion extends to full-size trains that urban planners have foisted on city after city in an alleged effort to solve commuter problems. The result has been failure and the cost has been billions of dollars.
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