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To: Yaacov who wrote (39408)11/7/1997 2:59:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Yaacov, OTOTOT

We have trains and they are used - but are about 50 years behind the TGV train I rode in France. And the Italian trains are better and the Swiss and German ones even better. I was extremely happy with the French train.

You are probably correct about negative lobbying from the other transportation vested interests having a real effect on innovation adoption. What do you know about government subsidies for the trains in the various European countries?

What is missing in this country is recognition by the public that there is a better way to travel. I never missed driving to an airport on the outskirts of the city and all the other hassles involved with flying only having to reverse the process at the other end.

It seems that European culture with regard to train transportation is much more highly evolved. In the USA we are suffering from lack of motivation and also from having too deeply involved vested interests being allowed to decide for all the rest of us that such an advancement is not needed.

Barry
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