We cannot be proud of our legislator’s foresight when it comes
to the consequences of deregulation of utilities, nor our failure
to build enough power generation plants to meet current and future
needs. Will we soon be saying the same thing about our disgraceful
lack of foresight for transportation infrastructure improvements
for intermodal transportation?
Editor,
We cannot be proud of our legislator’s foresight when it comes to the consequences of deregulation of utilities, nor our failure to build enough power generation plants to meet current and future needs. Will we soon be saying the same thing about our disgraceful lack of foresight for transportation infrastructure improvements for intermodal transportation?
As the federal government has opened the border for Mexican and Canadian trucks, and gets read to harmonize gross vehicle weights at the much higher Canadian (or will it be the even higher Mexican) limits, and preempt the states like California who prohibit triples and freeway doubles, will we be cursing this generation of legislators for failing to act to build and restore intermodal facilities?
How bad will we let our bridges and roads get by the pounding of those heavier axles before we realize that we have neglected a presently-existing technology, friendlier to the environment due to the fuel savings per ton of freight moved by rail versus highway?
Now they want us to tax ourselves so they can crow about “transit success” and reap the political patronage their pork harvesting brings them.
Joe Thompson, Tres Pinos
