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Detroit is in ruins, but they're building a $140M, three-mile streetcar line and you're helping pay
Conservative Intel ^ | 8/26/13 | David Freddoso

Posted on 08/26/2013 11:07:58 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier

...So $140 million is the cost of 3.3 miles of light rail in the city of Detroit, which by April was already well on its way to bankruptcy. In fairness, the project will mostly be privately funded. But why are federal taxpayers being put on the hook for even a single dime?...

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KEYWORDS: chapter9; detroit; michigan; rosemaryaquillina
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Federal taxpayers paying $25M of that.
1 posted on 08/26/2013 11:07:58 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
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To: The Old Hoosier

apt metaphor for the modern democrat party.


2 posted on 08/26/2013 11:09:49 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: The Old Hoosier

A streetcar so you could get mugged, knifed and shot at by the homeys.


3 posted on 08/26/2013 11:09:51 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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They want to make sure that the muggers know where you’re riding. That’s why it’s a straight line.


4 posted on 08/26/2013 11:10:39 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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"Federal taxpayers paying $25M of that. "

They're not paying, they're investing

/talkingpoint


5 posted on 08/26/2013 11:11:23 AM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: The Old Hoosier

Can’t throw stones as Pittsburgh built the most expensive tunnel on earth (per linear foot) to take the light rail under the Allegheny River for stops at Heinz Field and the casino.


6 posted on 08/26/2013 11:12:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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$140 million for 3 miles??

I’ll carry people personally on my back for half that


7 posted on 08/26/2013 11:12:57 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: The Old Hoosier
Hide & Watch!

Detroit's Blacks don't want jobs!

The want their free Obama phones!

8 posted on 08/26/2013 11:16:32 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think the Large Hadron Collider has that one beat, but I get your point.
Seriously though, more expensive than “the Big Dig”?


9 posted on 08/26/2013 11:20:25 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: max americana

Do any White people still live in Detroit?


10 posted on 08/26/2013 11:22:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: The Old Hoosier

A Streetcar Named Bankruptcy.


11 posted on 08/26/2013 11:23:13 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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“Do any White people still live in Detroit?”

The Detroit Red Wings do..for 3 hours on game days.


12 posted on 08/26/2013 11:26:11 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: The Old Hoosier

Public financing used to build great things that we actually used today: the Hoover Damn, TVA, the Verazano Brige, etc. Now, they build useless crap like light rail or bus lines that no one will ever use.


13 posted on 08/26/2013 11:26:22 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Restoration of the Republic)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And the Big Dig in Boston... BTW, are they finally finished?


14 posted on 08/26/2013 11:27:01 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: max americana

I guess Russians are used to violent crime areas...


15 posted on 08/26/2013 11:27:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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What does the streetcar do that a bus can't? If you have enough traffic where one driver can handle multiple coaches of people, then maybe a light rail system is useful, but what does a single car streetcar do for the extra capital expense that a bus can't? Labor's the same and capital costs to put in the rails are higher. Maybe if it is electric that could be cheaper, but you can use electric buses like Dayton, Ohio has in the city (diesels go to the suburbs).
16 posted on 08/26/2013 11:59:36 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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Hah! We in CT got that beat. We’re spending $60 million a mile for a busway.


17 posted on 08/26/2013 12:07:30 PM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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the ‘govt project’ is progressives one-trick-pony for ‘building the economy’

well, besides simply printing money

your state can be fiscally responsible... but as long as the fed can steal money from one state and pour it into another, your state is being had.

as a FL resident, my state loses money as people send it to the fed... since FL’s main income comes from sales tax. that which is sent to the fedgov cannot be spent in-state


18 posted on 08/26/2013 12:32:53 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Ghost of SVR4
Seriously though, more expensive than “the Big Dig”?

I'm told that on a per-foot basis, yes.


19 posted on 08/26/2013 12:53:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Buy a handful of these , save $138 million and actually move people ... no new infrastructure necessary ... has a 40+ year record of safe travel ... existing technology ... add to or change routes as needed


20 posted on 08/26/2013 12:58:58 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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