pipesgt wrote:
The Japanese rail system is drowning in red ink. High speed rail can only survive with massive amounts of taxpayer money. If there was money to be made in passenger service, the railroads would be the first in line to promote it. The only ones to promote it are the quasi-government corporations that are BritRail, Amtrak, VIA, etc. They survive because of taxpayer money. None of them are profitable.
pipesgt; I would like my government spent 60% of our taxepayer money and stop the highway program with the taxepayer money, because it will represent the 80% of less gasoline consume and also stop the the transportation of goods from the fronters or TLC that allow mexican truck that trafic ilegal and drug. All transportation of goods shall be made by train and local truck .
I don't now from where you take the data of non profitable, the railroad is the must profitable transportation in the history of transport.