Posted on 03/12/2011 7:30:47 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
TALLAHASSEE — High speed rail in Florida may not be totally dead yet.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday announced he will make the $2.4 billion originally earmarked for the state available through a competitive process.
That means a coalition of local governments, including Tampa, Orlando, Lakeland and Miami, could attempt to win the funds to build an 84-mile line between Tampa and Orlando. They would have to compete with other states for the money.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
do these cities understand that that $2.4 billion is likely to cost them $10 billion or more??
Sticking it to their citizens forever.
Mass transit is just a method to obtain more union worker’s dues for the DNC.
The DNC would immediately withdraw all support for rail projects if the transit jobs were voluntary union membership rather than mandated.
The feds won’t let it die for some reason and they keep trying to “persuade” the states. They must have gotten a terrific kickback to even consider such a total disaster maybe even better than Nelsen’s, etc.
If rail travel in the USA is so great, it would not have
collapsed 50 years ago, due to the interstate highway system.
When the time comes to do so, trains are more efficient, quicker, and secure than using busses and convoys to transport the sheep from their homes to camps.
Take a lesson from Japan’s dependence on rail to move citizens after a disaster...
you can cut through all the bull$hit in this entire story and sum it all up with one sentence.
“WE WANT THAT MONEY”
The only people supporting it are the ones who are getting paid.
$2.4 billion cost to replace a 1.5 hour drive? The “high-speed” train ticket would cost more than driving.
The premise of mass transportation is to take away individual freedom to go anywhere at anytime. That’s why liberals endorse it and Conservatives rightly see mass transit as a liberty-depriving fraud.
LaHood is like a heroin dealer with the free samples,Hey Ray put it into the SS Fund.
It will never get built. They have to try to raise the money for it and I challenge you to find one person in the I-4 corridor who actually wants that high speed train.
Ping.
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