NO one seems to say the obvious about why governments prefer roads to rail.
Money is the word.
There is revenue from registration, revenue from petrol tax, revenue from tax on everything to do with running trucks and cars on roads.
One hundred trucks means lots of money but one hundred rail cars not so much.
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READ NOWJust my opinion but it does bear thinking about.
SIDNEY PHILLIPS, Clarkson.