Light Rail: What works for Raleigh

[Mitch]

@John

In May, 1961, President Kennedy set the goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Barely 8 years later it happened. Now, how long have we been talking about the commuter rail between Raleigh and Durham? And, we can’t even imagine it making a 2027 delivery date when we already have the tracks? #pathetic

I get the frustration, but during those years NASA’s funding reached as high as 4.4% of the entire Federal budget (which would be $>50B/yr in today’s dollars adjusted for inflation, and >$200B/yr as a percentage of the current federal budget). The situations can’t really be compared.