>>1939171>>1940156If the railroads had been nationalized in 1950 (as a result of labor strife/Korean war supply difficulties, say) does anyone really think that planners/politicians/lobbyists would've said "okay, the somewhat stagnating Northeast and Midwest deserve a lot of rail and a high share of available tax dollars while the fast-growing West ought to be stuck with whatever they had in 1916"? They didn't do this with airports. They didn't do this with the Interstates, which were built to a high minimum standard regardless of traffic conditions or demand in sparsely populated regions.
