Dear Editor, We cannot be proud of our legislator’s foresight
when it comes to the consequences of deregulation of utilities, nor
our failure to build enough power generation plants to meet current
and future needs. Will we soon be saying the same thing about our
disgraceful lack of foresight for transportation infrastructure
improvements for intermodal transportation?
Dear Editor,
We cannot be proud of our legislator’s foresight when it comes to the consequences of deregulation of utilities, nor our failure to build enough power generation plants to meet current and future needs. Will we soon be saying the same thing about our disgraceful lack of foresight for transportation infrastructure improvements for intermodal transportation?
As the federal government has opened the border for Mexican and Canadian trucks, and gets ready to harmonize gross vehicle weights at the much higher Canadian (or will it be the even higher Mexican) limits, and preempt the states like California who prohibit triples and freeway doubles, will we be cursing this generation of legislators for failing to act to build and restore intermodal facilities?
How bad will we let our bridges and roads get by the pounding of those heavier axles before we realize that we have neglected a presently-existing technology, friendlier to the environment due to the fuel savings per ton of freight moved by rail versus highway?
Now they want us to tax ourselves so they can crow about “transit success” and reap the political patronage their pork harvesting brings them.
Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy
