Posted on 06/07/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
While debating proposed cuts to Amtrak’s budget, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) argued that the government subsidized train system is necessary, especially during disasters.
“What is it - that we don’t support transportation infrastructure?” Brown said on the House floor Thursday. “When we had 9/11 – Amtrak was the only entity that was moving people. When we had Katrina – Amtrak. We had over 3,000 people to die because they couldn’t move around the area.”
According to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1,833 people died in relation to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Amtrak had stopped service to New Orleans prior to Katrina reaching the area.
“We need a train that leaves New Orleans to go to Orlando and on down to Miami – that is the future,” Brown continued.
Amtrak offered passenger service on The Sunset Limited line from New Orleans to Orlando until 2005, when Katrina damaged the rail lines. The tracks have since been repaired but service to Orlando has not been restored.
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Facts are to liberals as sunlight and Holy Water are to vampires.
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A train on what train bed? Do they expect hydrofoil trains?
Uh, there was public transportation in New Orleans. It went unused as the locals took the opportunity to raid the stores for free stuff.
A yard of flooded school busses comes to miNd. Just think how many will die when Guam flips over. Democrats LOVE saying the are the smart party.
I seem to recall a whole parking lot full of school buses that the mayor didn’t use to evacuate New Orleans residents.
Really, these people are embarrassing, but it’s not quite as crazy as the Democrat who said that sharks still follow certain trails in the sea where the slave ships threw Blacks overboard.
What do you call building a coastal city below sea level? Not so smart.
What do you call it when they fill it with democrats?
Brilliant.
Sure, because when a Cane is coming every knows Miami is the place to go...
Let’s take a train that rim-rides the gulf and put thousands of people on it when the tidal surge is coming fast...
Idiots.
A liberal snarkily informed me that those buses sat there because there weren’t enough people licensed to drive them.
I’m not licensed to drive a busload of passengers around either but if I can start it, I can drive it.
Nagin’s paid city workers whose job it was to transport people fled from their jobs. So funding would not have helped. It was the democratic leadership that failed
It seems like road tax goes into the general fund and gets spent on anything else but potholes. Cost overruns would be great business for some train contractor.
The STUPIDITY - it BURNS!
LTG Russel Honore (Katrina) “Don’t get stuck on stupid ...”
Rep. Corrine Brown (DUMBocrat) can’t get off stupid to save her life!
“We need a train”
Trains are pre-1950s technology.
There were a lot of school buses and commercial transportation that Nagin could have commandeered to move people out.
They probably could have moved hundreds of thousands of people in the time they had leading up to the hurricane.
Over 200 buses in that pic, total for the lot is probably over 300.
That is transportation infrastructure already in place. Democrat city leaders decided to not use it.
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