I stole that title from Aaron Wildavsky, who was referring to a proposal to abolish the electoral college. But my subject is fast trains, specifically the proposal to build a high-speed railway linking Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Think it's a good idea? Well, you might want to look at today's Washington Post, which has a lucid discussion of the romance of the rails, called "A Rail Boondoggle, Moving at High Speed," by Robert J. Samuelson.
Samuelson's essay made me think of a policy paper published a few years ago by the Cato Institute, which had perhaps the greatest title of all time: "A Desire Named Streetcar," by Randal O'Toole.
I love trains, especially European trains. The one pictured above, called the Pendolino, is Finland's version of high-speed rail. It's a luxury that Ohio can ill afford.
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