Tolls for All May Pay for Nation's High-Speed Rail: Joe Mysak
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The subject of infrastructure is like the weather. Everybody complains, but nobody does anything about it.
The reason we can’t have nice things is because nobody wants to pay for them. What we get are isolated, often political, projects, deferred maintenance, expedient patchwork.