Monday letters: SC lawmakers should consider rail travel

Associate Editor Cindi Ross Scoppe recently wrote a column about funding for roads and bridges in South Carolina. She pointed out that it costs $125,000 to construct one lane of a road for one mile. Since most roads are more than one lane and far longer than one mile, road construction in our state will cost a large fortune, which we do not have.

Maybe our state senators and representatives could put some money into train transportation. That way, even people who can’t afford cars and insurance could travel cheaply and safely. Japan recently opened a railroad line on which passenger trains travel 375 miles per hour.

We don’t have to go that fast, but it would be nice to travel among Columbia, Greenville, Aiken, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head (even Atlanta and Charlotte) comfortably by train. Wouldn’t it?

Aiken

This story was originally published May 17, 2015 at 7:32 PM.