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Administration Will Spend $1.8 Billion to Build 20-Mile Railroad on 30-Mile-Wide Island (Oahu)
Cybercast News Service ^
| February 13, 2013
| Patrick Burke
Posted on 02/13/2013 6:04:40 PM PST by Olog-hai
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This has to be the most outrageous cost for light rail since the one across the river from New York (in Jersey City, over $100 million per mile)the Oahu system will be a colossal $255 million per mile. (That is $155 million per mile more than the largest estimate for California HSR, for the record.)
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:04:45 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
This is why roads are falling apart.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:08:28 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Olog-hai
Hey, keeping the fact that the dork has no real HI birth certificate costs.
And you and I get to pay....for their railroad.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:09:06 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Olog-hai
That money could be better spent investing in Google’s automated automobile system. That way they could have hundreds of thousands of stops and no track at all. PLUS, a really big benefit, the blind could travel on the system without the use of special trip hazard rubber mats.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:09:13 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Olog-hai
This is why roads are falling apart.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:09:19 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:09:39 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Olog-hai
How about tunnels that connect island to island?
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:10:02 PM PST
by
killermosquito
(Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
To: Olog-hai
Reminds me of the monorail episode of The Simpsons.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:11:37 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: killermosquito
Wanna chance hitting a magma reservoir . . . ?
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:12:12 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Jason Lewis’ law is “Spending begets Spending”.
If the Federal Government spends $billion for a Hooterville Trolly for Minneapolis how can you not build one in Oahu.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:12:24 PM PST
by
DManA
To: DManA
everyone had enough...well i have...time to act!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:12:48 PM PST
by
ldish
(Give me Freedom and Liberty or let's kick some a**!)
To: killermosquito
Better yet, a bridge to the mainland.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:12:54 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Olog-hai
Wow a new money laundering scheme.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:13:56 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Olog-hai
Article did not bother to mention the majority of Oahu residents are against the rail. Particularly since only a very small part of the island could possibly benefit, but everyone gets raped for the costs.
Lots of bullsqueeze about traffic, but the effect for most commuters will be nothing. A total waste of money.
To: Olog-hai
WHERE on a 30 mile wide island couldn’t you get to by walking?
To: Olog-hai
How many bridges to nowhere does this add up to.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:16:02 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Olog-hai
I’m not surprised at this. I arrived at Hickam AFB in March 1969. The construction of H1 was in progress. A mainland construction company, Kaiser, I think, had been awarded the contract for construction for about 20 miles of H1 from west of Barbers Point NAS to near Pearl City and had completed it on time. The local union goons (the ILWU controlled the islands) didn’t like that and prevailed on the Johnson administration to break up construction into about 1 mile chunks. H1 still had not been completed when I left the islands in late 1972, and the cost was astronomical.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:18:43 PM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:20:19 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Olog-hai
If the area has a population density comparable to Chicago or Toronto it would make sense, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case. If it were a full-on subway the cost would be reasonable but for light rail it’s ridiculous.
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posted on
02/13/2013 6:21:12 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
To: Olog-hai
Guess the yahoos responsibile for this haven’t noticed we are broke. Horribily irresponsible.
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