Tracks and Freeways
An urban photo for this week's Sunday Landscape. Like everything else in town, Galveston's transport infrastructure suffered badly during Hurricane Ike in 2008. I've mentioned before that railroad freight traffic is very much alive and well in America. However you wouldn't know it from these seemingly abandonned freight yards. I suspect much more government money went into getting the road network up and running again rather than the railroads.
(Aside : Yesterday's local news headline featured BP being fined $4.5billion dollars for their disastrous 2010 Gulf oil disaster. Call me cycnical but I wonder where lots of that money might end up going????? By the way, BP made a miserly $25.8billion profit in 2011)
Tracks and Freeways
An urban photo for this week's Sunday Landscape. Like everything else in town, Galveston's transport infrastructure suffered badly during Hurricane Ike in 2008. I've mentioned before that railroad freight traffic is very much alive and well in America. However you wouldn't know it from these seemingly abandonned freight yards. I suspect much more government money went into getting the road network up and running again rather than the railroads.
(Aside : Yesterday's local news headline featured BP being fined $4.5billion dollars for their disastrous 2010 Gulf oil disaster. Call me cycnical but I wonder where lots of that money might end up going????? By the way, BP made a miserly $25.8billion profit in 2011)