"End of the line on the Green Shoots Express! Thank you for choosing Blight Rail, please be prepared to be robbed as you leave the train for everyones convenience!"
Posted on 07/25/2014 10:28:15 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Which ones have less graffiti?
Honestly, in that city it probably does not matter at this point. Never mind trying to drive through that hell on earth.
I see the Detroit Tigers just renewed their lease with Lakeland FLA. for the next several decades.
"End of the line on the Green Shoots Express! Thank you for choosing Blight Rail, please be prepared to be robbed as you leave the train for everyones convenience!"
I want to live within eyesight of that. Cool building.
"No way es sa, I ain't getting off in Detroit, you loco in da head gringo!"
The Detroit Bus company hires graffiti artists to paint many of their buses and they’ve only existed for 4 or 5 years. Call me crazy but I actually cheer for entrepreneurs.
buy and move it brick by brick somewhere else
Looks like Houston.
The Democrat mayor in Boise wants light rail in the downtown area.
Downtown Boise is all of 1.5 miles long.
http://www.mapquest.com/us/id/boise
Do you realize that that building is owned by one of America’s wealthiest men?
Maybe you should address your comment to Matty Maroun.
probably not far from Houston... just a bit south
he needs to replace some windows, although I don’t buy the “broken window theory” of economics
Corpus Christi? What a hole.
Mayor of Detroit to commission on light rail “For God’s sake, whatever you do, do NOT call it a bullet train!”
I don’t know, Tucson’s (which starts service today) is like 4 1/2 miles, 200 million bucks, and will screw up one of our big money draws. We might have Detroit beat.
rofl
That is apparently the Mexican train “The Beast” carrying illegal aliens to America
Well, we could lengthen it if only they would incorporate the rail into the Rainbow Bridge they wanted over Interstate 10 from downtown. Hey! Maybe I’ll mention it and they can revive the project!
Nah. For a moment there I lost contact with my political beliefs. Probably as a result of living in close proximity to mindless idiots. My Bad.
First off, I oppose the taxpayer-funded HSR scheme in California and I supported the privately funded French consortium that proposed building a sensible HSR along a far more direct route.
That said, the 'rail to nowhere' meme really needs to stop being repeated because it is a non-argument.
The Federal government mirrored the Interstate Highway Act when they came up with the funding plans for HSR and they required the rural portions of the routes to be built first and then the urban portions would be built.
This is because the failed US route system that was supposed to feature four-lane highways was typified by urban parkways being built that led to two-lane oil-and-gravel roads in the rural areas. The urban politicians saw no point in funding highways in rural areas so those highways were never built.
The first Interstate was #70 and it's first stretches were built in rural Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado. This ended up connecting Denver and St. Louis. when the US Route system had failed to provide a decent road between these major cities.
And in California the local politicias are wanting to make local HSR systems with a 'promise' that maybe someday they'll connect to something. Which is a lie and the Fed will never fund these local HSR systems because they really don't go anywhere at all.
I oppose taxpayer funded HSR, but if they're going to do it then the rural sections have to be built first otherwise the urban sections wil never conect to anything at all.
Thanks for reading.
Yeah, me too.
He'll ride forever 'neith the streets of Boston.
He's a man who'll never return......
Chump change compared to Boston’s “Big Dig”.
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