Counting The Cost of Fixing The Future

A paragraph to ponder from the New York Times (September 10, 2013) - European Rail Crashes Show Gap in an Increasingly Precarious System:

"Starting new year, the European Union plans to spend $30 billion in 28 countries on transportation, much of it on rail modernization, to integrate about 20 intersecting national rail networks.  Yet even after years of such investment, member states have struggled to put in place a sophisticated unified system as state-owned monopolies gave way to private, competing train operators."