Posted on 05/13/2015 12:46:49 PM PDT by Biggirl
After Tuesday night’s catastrophic Amtrak derailment, resulting in the deaths of at least six people and injuries to more than 140 others, the political class has weighed in: we must spend more money on infrastructure.
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Defund Amtrak! Crush unions!
1. Public unions
2. Public unions
3. Public unions
4. Slow, dirty trains with rude employees and even worse stations that are not maintained because all the money goes to public union golden pensions and free medical...
Train was going 100 mph. Speed limit was 70 going into the turn and 50 in the middle. Wonder if the driver, who survived, will pass the drug screen and the cell phone log check.
Have we got a photo yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPo7l3qEu8k
In all, some three hundred new stations have been built or revitalized by China’s Railway Ministry, which has nearly as many employees as the civilian workforce of the United States government.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/boss-rail
Amtrak outside of the Northeast Corridor is not that useful. Maybe they should truly invest their money to build a true 180+ mph dedicated line between Boston and Washington, DC like what the Japanese did with the Shinkansen and call it a day.
If the conductor was going 100 mph, you can dang well bet the US Taxpayer is going to be paying out a truckload of money
The conductor was going 100mph only becaue the engineer was operating the train at an unsafe speed.
:-)
This accident is Dagny’s fault.
If she had rebuilt those tracks with the Rearden Metal instead of wasting it on building the Rio Norte Line to service that capitalist pig and earth raper Ellis Wyatt, after Wesley Mouch and I told her that it was needed in Pennsylvania for the Chick Morrison Special, this wouldn’t have happened.
/Jim Taggart
Amtrac is a product of liberals.
And that is like allowing Lucas Electrics to run our national grid.
Why finance poor management, planning, competence, ability, etc. etc?
The problem with highs speed rail in the U.S. is that it would have to be completely segregated from all other transportation and people. That means a rail line where every road crossing has an over pass or under pass. You would need tall fencing to keep the uncivilized from throwing stuff at the train. It would be a mess. You would also need engineers that stay awake.
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That's a good idea - except the tracks would have to run in a straight line from Providence to New Rochelle, and from Iselin to New Carrollton, and, as such, would go through the estates of really big, really important people - people SO important that you and I don't know their names.
That is never, never, never going to happen.
That is good, thanks
A full 89 percent of all long-distance travel in the United States takes place by car; most of the rest comes by airplane.No mention here of long distance bus travel. It certainly would make more sense to promote that in preference to trying to put rails on the Interstate Highway System.many desirable routes are occupied by our enormous network of highways, and only someone with a very rich fantasy life could believe that we are going to rip out the highways to put in a rail network.
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