It’s not a high speed train in NC but it is a train that is supposed to connect Raleigh to Charlotte and the cities in between.....I believe. It too is a boondoggle!!!! A leftist fantasy. But it continues as of now! sick.
Good Lord, they’re back at that again? I remember about 15 years ago when I lived in Raleigh when there was all the talk about a light rail between Raleigh and Durham.
The N&O ran a series of weekend inserts promoting it. They profiled all these people who thought it would be a great idea. But then would be the question, “When would you ride it?” It was invariably something like “I’d ride it to go to the museum a couple times a year.”
This is because no one actually commutes between Raleigh and Durham. They commute from the Raleigh suburbs to Raleigh and the Durham suburbs to Durham, or they commute from those suburbs to RTP. There was going to be a stop at the airport, but not in RTP or in any of the larger suburbs. Without commuters or business travelers, no form of mass transportation is economically viable. Going to the museum or the soup kitchen or to see grandma doesn’t cut it.
It was so wasteful even Congress wouldn’t fund it—I think the price tag was going to be about a billion dollars a mile.