Midweek Takes #5

7/14's small thoughts and links.

It’s Bastille Day, so it’s time to talk about chemins de fer.

To scale: France is about 80% the size of Texas. Image Source.

Look, I’m not saying that it’s time to storm the Capitol¹ to get the United States to invest in rail². But I am saying that it’s time to take up the cause of state-sponsored rail travel with gusto: enough with the $x trillion infrastr…