by Tadman
ryanwc wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:31 pm To be fair to the FRA staff, they're writing the report Congress told them to write, not the report they'd like to write.I'm not 100pct disagreeing with you, but is there a source for that? Or are they writing this report on speculation that it might be a boon to the FRA funding over the next ten years? There might be some proviso in their enabling legislation that says something like "stay on top of trends and provide congress with forecasts and potential business models for future mass transportation trends". While that doesn't say "write me a book about passenger trains", I could see how the FRA gets there.
Honestly curious what the genesis of the effort was.
Edit- would also be nice to see the brief that kicked this off. "Draw lines from MSP to PHX and similar" is much less useful than "Take $5bn funding and tell us how to capture 5pct of intercity travel and/or cut N hydrocarbon emissions".
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.