Ride trains and windmills to infinity and beyond.
Posted on 07/01/2011 6:51:46 PM PDT by matt04
State officials say final design and construction plans have been approved for high-speed rail in western Massachusetts.
U.S. Reps. John Olver and Richard Neal and Sen. John F. Kerry and federal and state transportation officials said Friday that the U.S. Department of Transportation signed a nearly $73 million grant agreement. Funding is available from federal stimulus money.
Officials say the project, which is expected to cost $75.6 million, will rehabilitate the Connecticut River rail line. Amtrak’s Vermonter service will be rerouted to the line, providing a more direct route to Northampton and Greenfield.
John F. Kerry? The French looking candidate, who by the way, served in Vietnam?
northhampton has a large gay community.
maybe it’s a 2-fer. NY State gay marriage and now I can go by rail
more easily.
My cousin lives out there in Amherst. There’s nothing out that way except hippies, UMASS and other “female-friendly” college campuses.
Where to begin with this idiocy? A 62 mile route between New Haven and Springfield - how many people currently travel in ANY form between those two center cities? How many more will jump at the opportunity to shave, what, 20 minutes off the current rail time? Watching my tax dollars disappear into these black holes is SO frustrating.
G_d help Western Mass, it is a shell of it's former self....
Let us hope "Sarah" takes an axe to projects of madness such as these...
Ride trains and windmills to infinity and beyond.
Not only that, but my guess is that this boondoggle project is precisely like the one that was slated for Florida, which was scotched when the governor of FL rejected the money. He said it would be a waste of money! Truth be known; Massachusetts, being a commie-lib stronghold, took the money and will happily spend it, JUST BECAUSE IT’S AVAILABLE....with not one wit of concern for the fact that it’s actually BORROWED money from the Chi-Coms! I would also predict that once this gold-plated boondoggle is finished; as far as true usefullness is concerned; it won’t really amount to a fart in a tornado!
As a Massachusetts resident, his crap is making me tear my hair out.
Springfield? SPRINGFIELD? My apologies to anyone from Springfield, but that city is a major, depressed Sh*th*le.
This is the same mindset of the idiots who want to build a high speed rail line in depressed areas of Detroit to rejuvenate the area. These morons think that if they build it, the jobs will come.
What will happen is it will be BUILT, over deadlines and over budget, will be staffed by union employees, and will be subsidized eternally with sparse ridership.
Agh. I can’t take this crap anymore.
Exactly. This stuff is starting to make me so angry I think I can actually feel my blood pressure rising.
These brain dead liberals think that if they provide all the infrastructure for industry, that venture capitalists and businessmen of all stripes will flock to the area.
They won’t. If the massive state/federal/local taxes, bureaucracy, legislation and environmental regulations make it impossible to run a profitable business (AND THEY DO) then NOBODY with HALF A BRAIN is going to sink their money into there.
What STUPID MORON is going to take his hard earned capital and sink it into there, in Western Massachusetts, only to see it pissed away? What dumbass in his right mind WOULDN’T build his facilities down in Texas, over in China or something like that?
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Don't underestimate the Massachusetts labor unions and democrat politicians.
Remember the Big Dig? Originally estimated at $2.8 billion, the Boston Globe's latest estimate is that the project cost will ultimately total $22 billion.
I'd wager the final cost on this one will be between $300 million and $500 million.
terrorists already planning derailments
Pretty close toothfairy, although there are a few of us traditional conservatives here too. Course we seldom go anywhwere or if we do it isn’t in the area!!
AMEN to that!! We avoid both cities like the plague!! No reason a rail line is going to change that.
$73 million? Try $1 billion or more, and resultant rail that is not traversable at 50 mph. The state is a nestbed of thieves for at least 50 years.
rlmorel, I couldn’t argue that if I wanted too. MA and CT, not to mention NY, chase industry away with their taxes, unions, reg’s, whiney crybaby workers, they even drive restaurants out of state, or just plain out of business, and NO stupid train is going to bring it back. Especially when they will end up helping fund the dumb thing. Olver?? Neal??? give me a break, socialists-are-us.
***Cough Cough “Big Dig” Cough***
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