Mass-transit systems are the only way that we are going to be able to cope in the future with our transportation needs, and railways should be playing a very big part in that.

But hell, we've known all this since the seventies and still lardarses and rich bastards are piling into their SUVs at the expense of the planet (wait for the "but I need mine because of the weather/terrain/safety of my kids on the school run etc etc" whining excuses from the polluters) so what chance mass transit has against a powerful pro-car society is anybodies guess.

Shame they won't be up to their neck in shit and cholera as the floodwaters rise with the poor sods in Bangladesh who will pay first for someone else's 'freedom of choice'.