Gov. Kasich rejected already $400 million in federal funds to build a different train line but does not reject other rail projects out of hand.
We have a lot work ahead of us to turn this government away from free spending insanity.
NOpe not happening! Ohio does not nor can afford ths.Kasich already said no to the high speed railroad.
It's a waste of money, all with taxes of course. I also would rather not see Detroit with easy rail access to Ann Arbor either.
High speed rail seems like a prime terrorist target to me. Are they going to spend the money to watch every mile of track to make sure no one is messing with the rails? If so, it becomes even MORE cost inefficiant than it would normally be. Any Repub who associates him/herself with this crap ought to be primaried.
AMTRAK? Hello? No one wants to take a train.
I haven't seen a regular bus line vehicle full of ordinary folks since Hector was a pup.
The same maxim applies to high-speed (which WON'T be high-speed) trains. They are guaranteed tax-money gobblers. If they weren't, private enterprise would have built them long ago.
The automobile is king in America.....and will be until we're all forced under penalty into riding a network of public transportation which Obama is curiously pushing HARD to build against all sound reasoning.
Leni
Normal passenger trains are far more efficient than high-speed rail if you factor in maintenance and safety. Normal trains are very fuel-efficient transportation where you have a network of towns within about an hour of each other. Take a ride on the Bergen line in NJ. Normal trains, decently clean, nice ride, very popular, go from town to town or all the way to nyc.
If only the gov’t would get out of all mass transit and let private companies (U.S. only) own the infrastructure and other private companies operate.