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...Americans are into details. If you're going to spend $25,000, I don't want something that looks like this. The Japanese have a better product." Similar reasoning led the Los Angeles transportation commission to authorize the purchase of 41 light railcars for the city's Metro Rail Green Line from Sumitomo, a Japanese builder, though a bid from an Idaho-based manufacturer was $5 million lower...
...resurrect the American infrastructure, the government might help finance federal, state and local partnerships to build mass transit, opting for light rail more often than underground subway lines. These transit systems would easily pay back their start-up costs through reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular...
Create federal, state and local partnerships to build light-rail lines for urban areas lacking mass transit; support high-speed rail for passengers and freight. To help pay for it, boost taxes on parking and fuel. Such programs would reduce pollution, gridlock and dependence on oil imports...
Sullivan seems to have mastered the Harvard tradition of saying everything in as many syllables as possible. But has he mastered what it will take to re-rail his team...
...explosive force in the midst of this ferment was Japan's fractious Kwantung Army, originally sent to the Kwantung Peninsula just east of Beijing to protect Japanese rail and shipping interests in Manchuria. After ultranationalist Kwantung officers murdered the Chinese overlord of Manchuria, Tokyo installed a puppet regime in 1932 and proclaimed the independence of what it called Manchukuo. Despite calls for sanctions against Japan, outgoing President Herbert Hoover had no enthusiasm for a crisis, and the incoming President Roosevelt was preoccupied with the onrushing Great Depression...