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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
So are the interstate freeways through cities like Chicago tolled just to encourage rail ridership??
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No. I never said that. One of the main reasons to add tolls is to recoup some of the building and maintenance costs.
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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
Also, should we then toll trucks for using provincial 4-lane divided freeways and, before we implement that, train current truckers to drive (train) locomotives? 
“Did you use to be a truck driver? Ontario Northland Rail is hiring! We will train (no pun intended) you for the first year and after that you will start driving cargo/passenger trains! We cover as far south as Montréal (expansion), as far east as Val-d’or (again, expansion), as far north as the Ring-of-Fires (again, expansion), and as far west as Winnipeg Centreport (again, expansion)!” 
One can see how imaginative I am.  |
And to make sure they all have jobs, we will have one locomotive per rail car and prohibit the remote control of additional locomotives.
That way trains can become as inefficient as trucks.