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Re:If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man o... by jandrese on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:38AM (#16052034)
Even in the US you see this. There was a light rail line[1] that ran west from Washington DC connecting several small farming communities in the early 1900s. It was dismantled and turned into a bike trail and now we are spending billions of dollars[2] to build a Metro expansion parallel to the old rail line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Old_Dominion_Ra...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/02/1...

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