{"id":809,"date":"2009-09-03T16:48:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-09-03T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T20:48:55","slug":"qotd-the-red-headed-step-child-of-the-environmental-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/qotd-the-red-headed-step-child-of-the-environmental-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;The red-headed step-child of the environmental movement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As a practical matter, we&#8217;d probably get more environmental benefit (and save more wear-and-tear on our roads) from improving our freight rail system, like the abysmal mess in Chicago, than from high speed passenger rail that is very unlikely to carry more than a handful of Americans on any regular basis. . . But this does not attract one eightieth of the interest that you see in HS(P)R.  As I understand it, there is finally some actual progress on Chicago, but it&#8217;s still bogged down in process, and it&#8217;s not clear to me whether it&#8217;s really enough. It seems clear to me that switching freight to rail whenever possible should be a policy priority, but it&#8217;s the red-headed stepchild of the environmental movement.  We need freight cars that look more like pandas.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/rail_its_not_just_for_passenge.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rail: It&#8217;s Not Just for Passengers&#8221;, <em>Asymmetrical Information<\/em><\/a>, 2009-09-03<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a practical matter, we&#8217;d probably get more environmental benefit (and save more wear-and-tear on our roads) from improving our freight rail system, like the abysmal mess in Chicago, than from high speed passenger rail that is very unlikely to carry more than a handful of Americans on any regular basis. . . But this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,41,237,15],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-quotations","category-railways","category-technology","tag-highspeedrail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}