Original sentence: After the war, improvements in automobiles, highways, and aircraft made those means practical for a greater portion of the population than previously.Examples include air travel, highways, and rail.Later, central planning is tacked on, as when the government established specific trans-continental routes, or began funding airports or the interstate highways.Money was set aside in ISTEA (1991) for mag-lev development, and proposals for deployment have been made in Orlando and Texas, but there is still no operating maglev in revenue earning passenger service.This is by contrast with other modes of transportation—though pro- and anti-free market thinkers might debate the importance or relevance of the point—whose emergence have at least in part been the result of a forceful entrepreneur
Edited sentence: After the war improvements in automobiles, highways and aircraft made those means practical for a greater portion of the population than previously.Examples include air travel, highways and rail.In Europe and Japan, with important conventional rail services, their extension and adaptation to a higher speed technology was a more obvious choice than in the United States, where decisions are dominated by the highway lobby rather than reason.Later central planning +is tacked on, as when the government established specific trans-continental routes, or began funding airports or the interstate highways.Money was set aside in ISTEA (1991) for maglev development, and proposals for deployment have been made in Orlando and Texas, but there is still no operating maglev in revenue earning passenger service.Neither air nor highway modes can avoid these.Other widely cited complaints against the air and highway modes are their externalities: pollution, noise, accidents, etc.The railroads, which had been built with private capital, were not given an equal playing field.This is by contrast with other modes of transportation--though pro- and anti-free market thinkers might debate the importance or relevance of the point--whose emergence have at least in part been the result of a forceful entrepreneur