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In other words, if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas (i.e. pipelines for them) we'll have more money for mass transportation. The irony is, our love of personal transportation is foregoing our transition to trains and such.

>if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas we'll have more money for mass transportation

how do you figure that?

Bump up to the comment I commented on. That said something along the lines of "but there's plenty of money for pilelines."

I wasn't figuring. I was summarizing and contexting.

Seattle's light rail is coming online one station at a time. As each station is brought onboard, ridership explodes in the surrounding community.

Tokyo's railway was built up over more than a century, infrastructure takes time.

According to the article, this change should make rail cars cheaper.