Readers of either Matthew Yglesia’s liberal blog or Reason’s libertarian one know of the liberals’ passionate love of high-speed rail (why can’t we be more like Europe?) and the libertarians’ detestation of the same (because Europe sucks, that’s why!). Well, James Fallows, inspired by the burgeoning air-taxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area, may have found a way to bridge Scylla and Charybdis. Will “spiffy Cirrus SR-22 propeller planes” have enough retro high-tech appeal to make the liberals forget about their beloved European bullet trains? Frankly, I’m doubtful, but if you’re doing time in Folsom (see map), things may be looking up, in more ways than one!
