[Willie Green]

Hmmmmmm....

It looks like Sharonville would be a wonderful stop for this train!!!

[Ann Archy]

There’s NOTHING great in Sharonville.

[Paladin2]

Maybe folks could use these to avoid greenhouse gas production:

[dforest]

They don’t need a damn train.

[PLMerite]

“Its 2010 estimated budget is $14 million, but only $6.5 million of that being generated, leaving a shortfall of half of its budget.”

Yet somehow this still makes sense to some people.

[Right Wing Assault]

Eight stations. Four you’ve heard of. Is the plan to make the other four ones no one has heard of? I think the idea is to have a reason for a station.

[chris_bdba]

Way too small to worry about. They should linit the stops to places where people might actually get on like towns that are larger than 20,000 residents or larger.

[hinckley buzzard]

I've lived in Ohio for fifty of my 64 years, and I never even heard of "Sharonville" until now. Apparently it is a meaningless little suburb of Cincinnati, a city to which, in itself, few if any Ohioans ever travel. I can guarantee that the number of annual passengers from Cleveland or Dayton to Sharonville can be counted on at most two or three hands.

[freeandfreezing]

I love the business sense of the liberals who are in love with public transit. The Downeaster passes through southern New Hampshire so we get to experience its noise, hazardous road crossings, etc. first hand. Ms. Quinn explains how the train loses 7.5 million dollars per year, but after investing 78 million dollars the state expects to get 76 million back in taxes. Some investment! They are losing money even before they count the yearly losses.

Assuming their ridership is around 400,000 per year - midway between the peak in 2008 and their 2007 ridership, they lose $18.75 per rider, or $625,000 per month. Each train round trip loses a little over $4,000. They lose almost $21,000 per day. And the director of the train thinks this is fine - after all some illusory "benefit" supposedly is worth spending $20,000 per day on.

Of course the director never considers how the rest of us who are paying the $20,000 per day could more profitably use the money, or the benefits that could come from spending $7.5 million dollars per year on something other than a train which takes 1/2 hour longer than a car to get from Boston to Portland.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow ! Sharonville ! This could make billions !