By Raymond J. Keating, The Detroit News; June 23, 2019
Like the Green New Deal, former vice president Joe Biden’s climate change proposal garnered immense attention, particularly for its emphasis on the revitalization of America’s first transformative transportation mode: rail.
Biden and architects of the more-drastic GND are not wrong in acknowledging the many shortcomings of passenger and transit rail systems such as Amtrak in the United States.