Posted on 02/16/2012 6:18:12 AM PST by N. Theknow
The DART in Dallas in pretty sweet to ride. Fast as hell and can be anywhere in the city in an hour. Better then sitting in a car with that traffic.
I take this route frequently. We often sit on a siding waiting for freight traffic to pass. So what? It makes absolutely no difference to me if Amtrak arrives in Chicago at 11 AM or 1 PM, or if I get back to Lansing at 8 or 9 PM.
I do not believe there is a train terminal in Detroit. It ends in Dearborn, the Islamic Capital in Michigan. The old Michigan Central station in downtown Detroit was abandoned many decades ago and is a burned-out vadalised monument to a Democratic city political monopoly.
Who the hell would want to go to Detroit anyhow???
Detroit Denby, Class of 1967
True. That big band sound is still the best.”
How true. In retrospect “the good old days” really were the “Good old days” IMHO. We are surely going down hill fast to becoming a third world country. I am glad I don't have many years left. I just feel sorry for my children and theirs.
Was thinking it would make sense to change the headline so it talked about Speeding AWAY from Kalamazoo...but I like your version too.
The train starts in Pontiac, goes to Detroit, then on to Chicago.
That accident was on track owned by Norfolk-Southern.
The ‘High-Speed’ track is the old Michigan Central Line, on of the few tracks actually owned by Amtrak. They have been working on this line for more than a decade, bringing it up to standard.
The biggest part of making a line “High-Speed” is eliminating crossings like the one where this accident happened. Amtrak has been able to do exactly that on much of the old MC line, but has no control over what NS does.
Traverse City would have been my bet. In order of cities that have gotten the wish list of Democrat / leftist priorities:
Detroit - 100% leftist. Total state corruption, total state control, government is just the gang with the jails and the tax power.
Flint - 99.8% leftist. Michael Moore doesn’t come home that often. When he’s there, it’s 105%.
Dearborn - 95% leftist. Leftists want to lump islamic honor killings in with conservatives, but that’s just because they hate conservatives and want to give islam a pass right now. In reality, the political reality of islamic nations suggests that islam is not compatible with individual rights or liberties. Islam is leftist.
Ann Arbor - 95% leftist. I saw posted somewhere that conservatives don’t like to go there because its hard to breathe in all the smug.
Lansing - 90% leftist. Union central and the state capital to boot.
Traverse City - 90% leftist. Limousine liberal central. With good wine.
K’zoo - 85% leftist. Going downhill fast, but it’s still in western michigan and has no wine to attract the hippies.
Battle creek - 75%
Jackson - ????
Others?
Only in Obama’s America is a step back in performance previously met considered a giant leap forward today...what an embarrassment.
“We are surely going down hill fast to becoming a third world country. I am glad I don’t have many years left. I just feel sorry for my children and theirs.”
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve said exactly the same thing to people. I’m old enough to remember what we once were. It saddens me to think what we’ve become.
Slower compared to what?
They will soon..
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