I highly recommend reading this article by Julie Doubleday about how the Koch Brothers are using their intense wealth to destroy public transportation systems, especially high speed rail. YES they are in Canada, funding the discredited far right Fraser Institute and have invested heavily in the Alberta tar sands. Here is the link to the article.  http://www.attn.com/stories/295/how-two-billionaires-are-destroying-high-speed-rail-america