The rail line will go right through Rock Ridge.
The train to nowhere...
I hope it’s bulletproof.
Oh’ and Willie Green is smiling down from the great ozone in the sky...
He’s been better than expected but this is stupid. The damn train can’t even leave the state and won’t be any faster than current scamtrak.
So people can flee Detroit even faster?
According the internet (which is never wrong), it’s a 5-6 hour drive.
The train will knock 30 minutes off that.
Spend how much to knock 30 minutes off a 5-6 hour drive?
just what we need....a train to the ghetto with no riders.....
Rail projects?
Rail Projects?
We got rail projects!
Scratch the surface of this little exclusive lotto ticket called “light rail” in Hampton Roads...
Rail Projects.
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/light-rail-budget-up-50-million
This is great. 47% of the Detroiters couldn’t read the train ticket and the balance are unemployed. This program would guarantee that Illinois would get conceal-carry, no doubt, slam-dunk.
Hawaii spent a gazillion bucks telling us how wonderful rail will be, how much time we'll save, all illustrated by beautiful visions from architects being bribed hired to produce drawings of beautifully landscaped futuristic rail stops and stations. For a few months we were inundated by "public service"ads on how wonderful our great mayor was to envision rail. Total cost is now up over $10 billion - and that's just for a 20-mile corridor. Detroit to Chicago??? $200 million? Might as well just throw it in Lake Michigan.
Also, how many people go back and forth between Chicago and Detroit on a frequent basis? I’m guessing it’s not that many unless all the Bamsters friends need to go to ground and disappear when things get too hot for them in Chicago (a la Al Capone - except western Michigan was good enough for Capone).
This is GREAT! Now DNC thugs and ‘bag men’ can deliver payoffs and bribes to union stooges in even less time than before! This is GREAT! Imagine the welfare losers being able to use food stamps for train fare so that they can purchase large amounts of grass and crack in BIG D and get back to Chi-town to catch a Sox game! This is GREAT!
In other news, lots of your money was pissed away by the federal government.
A plane makes the trip in far less time and does not require the infrastructure investment.
Sure you can drink while you ride but you can also get rolled by the gangbangers who will own this line in no time.
One of the beauties of automotive travel is that you don’t get stuck sitting next to someone who smells badly, passes gas frequently, talks endlessly, or sing rap music for the whole trip. John Rocker was right.
if there are a thousand people that go from Detroit to Chicago daily, and it is financed by ticket prices, that works out to be a surcharge of less than 10 dollars a ticket.
It certainly could have been financially self-financing.