[WOBBLY BOB]

it's boondogglicious!

[SamAdams76]

Paging Willie Green

[Vince Ferrer]

High speed rail: It beats walking

[hinckley buzzard]

Great framing. "Third fastest." The same could be said about other "Highspeed" corridors like the ridiculous 3C corridor from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

looks good on a map except for one little thing... hardly anybody ever travels from Cleveland to Cincinnati or vice versa. And if they do, I-71 is faster, cheaper and more efficient.

[TaMoDee]

This is as dumb as the Kalifornia Hi-Speed Rail project.
>Note that both are in Dumbocrat states with Union support.

[Pelham]

The Milwaukee Road ran high speed passenger trains between the Twin Cities and Chicago until maybe 1950. The steam locomotives pulling these trains could cruise at 100 mph and had a top speed of 120.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/streamlined/scrapped/hiawatha-3.jpg

http://www.germansteam.co.uk/FastestLoco/fastestloco.html#MR1

Not a cent of tax money was required. The railroads found it profitable to invest in fast passenger trains in that era. It’s not profitable today.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Why would anyone in their right mind be in a hurry to get to Chicago?

[DManA]

Gosh I love Joe. I can’t believe I’ve been listening to him for 25 years.

Reusse too of cource. The two worst radio voices in history.

[DManA]

Gosh I love Joe. I can’t believe I’ve been listening to him for 25 years.

Reusse too of cource. The two worst radio voices in history.

[Last Dakotan]

The train offers me nothing, especially not ideologically, because I find the mindset behind most public transportation to be born of a collectivist mentality that I find antithetical to the reasons we are trying to get to places in America in the first place. We are a hustling country.

All hail the Flashlight King.

[Clinging Bitterly]

We have rode the Coast Starlight a couple times (may as well, we subsidize it). It is not a terrible way to travel BUT we know if passengers had to pay the entire, true cost of the ride most of those passengers would vote with their feet - for something else.

The way I see it, taxpayer subsidized transit in all forms stifles the market. One can only wonder what better forms of transit would exist in a free and open market.

[Proud2BeRight]

How many billions of dollars to get there in 5 1/2 hours when you can fly it in an hour or drive it in 7 hours? The Democrats just love to flush money down the sewer.

[NonValueAdded]

Intercity Bus holds some promise there. Gives that “leave the driving to us” factor that some of the commenters were commenting upon below the story.

[Thunder90]

Is Obama going to FORCE Wisconsin to build the slow speed rail? I hope not.

[ExCTCitizen]

As a railfan, passenger trainswill never be as popular as it is in other parts of the world. I would love to see a privatize AMTRAK, with trains across THEUSA.

[PIF]

As things stand now, the train will run from the Twin Cities to the northern Wisconsin border and then resume on the Illinois side of the southern border ...

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wisconsin high Speed Rail Ping

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