Recapturing waste would boost Nation's GDP significantly
The lost work hours and wasted capital endured in at least 10-15 large American cities would, if captured, likely represent a non-trivial shift in the nation’s GDP—i.e. the investiment in rail transport would have a huge back-end payoff.
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Recapturing waste would boost Nation's GDP significantly
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