How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence

What if the FAA required that jet aircraft be able to survive crashes into the ground? Or if the FHA said automobiles had to survive any head-on crash at 60 mph into a tractor trailer without deformation? Even if such vehicles could be engineered, they would be far too costly to operate. But for passenger trains, that is precisely what the FRA has been doing.

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