Occupied Media, by Noam Chomsky: on Technology


Scandal that Amtrak runs at same speed as in 1950s

I happened to be giving talks in France a couple of months ago and ended up in Southern France and had to take a train from Avignon to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. It took 2 hours. The trip we took was the same distance as from Washington, DC, to Boston. I don't know if you've ever taken the train from Washington to Boston, but it's operating at about the same speed it was 60 years ago when my wife and I first took it. It's a scandal. It could be done here as it's been done in Europe. They had the capacity to do it, the skilled work force. It would have taken a little popular support, but it could have made a major change in the economy.
Source: Occupied Media, by Noam Chomsky, p. 36-7 May 1, 2012

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