This article<\/a>\u00a0by Amy Crawford explains that “Instead of spending billions to bail out airlines, advocates argue for a more carbon-friendly pandemic investment: railroad travel.”<\/p>\n Rail is the mode that \u201cbest supports 21st-century development in bustling urban centers, walkable downtowns even in much smaller cities and towns and the agglomeration economies of cities and megaregions that are driving the vast majority of current economic growth,\u201d according to a white paper laying out Moulton\u2019s plan. In other words, trains are not only better for the environment than other modes of transportation, but they can also promote the kind of density that makes communities greener and allows economies to grow.<\/p>\n While previous stimulus efforts, including after the 2008 recession, focused on highways, [Massachusetts congressman Seth] Moulton said that \u201cinvestment is achieving diminishing returns.\u201d Highways promote sprawl, leading to longer commutes and more emissions while making regional economies less efficient, he argued. \u201cForcing everyone into more cars or over-crowded planes has failed for our international peers and is failing here at home,\u201d the congressman said.\u00a0Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRecordings of this week’s events<\/h3>\n
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