Posted on 10/02/2012 5:14:12 PM PDT by matt04
State and federal officials are set to announce $121 million in federal funding for a high-speed rail project between New Haven and Springfield, Mass.
In addition to Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who will announce the funding, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin support the 62-mile project.
It calls for service every 30 minutes during peak periods and every 60 minutes at other times. Speeds would reach up to 110 miles an hour. Malloy's office projects 1.26 million riders annually by 2030.
The state says it expects to finish design work next year and launch service in 2016. As of last year, Connecticut earmarked $286 million in bonding for the projected cost of $800 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
Yeah, and that’s their projection for 2030!
The MetroNorth New Haven line down in the southern part of the state, by contrast, already has a ridership of 35 million a year.
And once this thing was complete, Amtrak would lose money operating it every year.
“Didn’t Bostom have something called the “Big Dig” that cost us taxpayers about 1000 X what was originally projected...”
Original estimated cost was $2.8 billion, and it’s at $22 billion now and still climbing. The Big Dig is 3.5 miles long, so that comes out to about $6 billion per mile.
The criminal element in New Haven and Springfield can murder, rob, rape, carjack and molest the inhabitants of the target-rich Hartford suburbs and be home in 25 minutes!
Yep. Still has some minor problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#Problems
Why? Who commutes between Springfield and New Haven?
Complete waste.
High speed rail connecting a city of 153,000 to a city of 130,000. Where do they think this crap up?
Drug dealers and such.
Put these pinheaded, dimwitted legislators in jail...or better yet, into a hospital for the criminally insane. Anyone who votes for these clowns should get a “check-up-from-the-neck-up”.
>>The New Britain Hartford busway will be filled with empty buses..<<
According to one of the bus drivers on the route, his buses are empty now. :(
So.......no one uses the buses now, and they are going to use a high speed train? There’s no business in New Britain...I could see it if it was still the *Hardware Capital of the World*....but it’s till a ghost town...as is Hartford.
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