Posted on 07/15/2010 8:02:28 PM PDT by Willie Green
Imagine speeding across the lake through the LaBranch Wetlands and your final destination is Baton Rouge.
Advocates of high speed rail are meeting in New Orleans. They say the Gulf Coast is the logically place to implement a high speed rail system.
In the future they envision, New Orleans being the hub with routes originating from here to Bir to Atlanta and from New Orleans to Houston going West.
The Obama administration allocated some $8 billion dollars for high speed rail systems.
Louisiana turned down nearly $600 million dollars. Governor Bobby Jindal called it port spending. Adding that the state couldn't afford to up keep the system.
"It's not about what the system will cost to connect our people, it's about what will it cost if we don't connect our people," said John Robert Smith of Reconnecting America.
Smith and others at the conference said if Louisiana gets its act together high speed rail could be here in just over 5 years.
Isn’t it great to live in a country that has more money than it knows what to do with. LOL.
Once again campers: the only high-speed rail system that has managed to pay for itself is the old original. Japan’s Shinkansen “bullet” train, inaugurated way back in 1964.
I bet that Houston would fork over another eight billion as long as the train only went one way. :)
I imagine that is EXACTLY what they said;
supporters of so-called high-speed rail are rarely the sharpest knives in the drawer...
One more thing we’ll get to rebuild when the next hurricane blows through.
“The Concept of High Speed Rail Comes to New Orleans”
I wonder how high the tax payer subsidies are going to have to be to make it profitable. The one in Seattle is ridiculous.
More than that by golly if they could put Bill White on the first train!
LOL!
“They say the Gulf Coast is the logically place to implement a high speed rail system.”
Seriesly! It’s one of the least likely places!
Boston through to Washington is still the only route in North America that might make sense. How’s that coming?
Just as I thought - nada.
Well, the Gulf Coast is the logically place if the goal is to have the trains unimpeded by either stops or passengers...
LOL! Don’t be mean!
Does it come with SCUBA gear?
I'm thinking that was supposed to be PORK spending, and Bobby Jindal is right!
“Imagine speeding across the lake through the LaBranch Wetlands and your final destination is Baton Rouge.”
More lib claptrap:
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
I can’t believe it took this long for someone to post “Monorail! Monorail!”
New Orleans needs high speed rail like they need another hole in a levy.
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