Billions and Billions to Be Wasted

The part that is most interesting:

About half of the transportation dollars in the bill are dedicated to Amtrak and urban transit, modes of transportation that carry less than 1 percent of passenger travel and no freight. While the other half appears to be dedicated to highways, much of that will be spent on projects that will reduce, not maintain or increase, roadway capacities.

Caveat lector. If you are looking for a non-partisan review of the pros and cons of the bill, this is not the article to read. The author of the article has been a long term advocate for defunding rail[1] and it is published by The Cato Institute, which is " libertarian in its political philosophy, and advocates a limited role for government in domestic and foreign affairs"[2] and has been funded in no small part by the oil industry.

I'm not saying the article is without merit, but it is utterly partisan, and like so much online and traditional publications in the US, it is critical to know the lens through which it has been written.

I find it increasingly difficult and tiring trying to find genuinely balanced/non-partisan analysis about important topics such as this, the spending of vast sums of our tax dollars.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38510332-romance-of-the-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute