On Infrastructure Funding and the Amtrak Derailment
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 14, 2015
The Amtrak derailment happened as Congress faces the May 31 deadline on transportation funding. John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, looks at whether those dots connect.
"We're basically down towards the bottom of the advanced world" in transportation funding, says @JohnCassidy.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 14, 2015
Major rail systems are expensive to build & run, but the argument for public funding is they're good for the economy, take ppl off roads.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 14, 2015
Drives me nuts. I take NYC-DC train all the time, and amazed how much better it is than planes. We’ve been dumb. https://t.co/oO92hhMnfm
— Dave Cullen (@DaveCullen) May 14, 2015
