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Posted on 11/08/2013 1:34:26 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
MILWAUKEE — The gleaming red-and-white trains sit motionless in a cavernous warehouse in Century City, an industrial neighborhood that cranked out 100 million car and truck frames in its heyday. The seats are draped in plastic; an electronic screen on one reads, “Quiet Car. 11:10 a.m. 000 MPH.”
President Obama once hoped that these high-speed trains would be transporting passengers from Milwaukee to Madison, Wis., part of a broader system crisscrossing the Midwest and the nation.
But Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, rejected $823 million in funding that the federal government was offering, and the Transportation Department transferred the funds to California. The two trains now sit idle, with five employees of a Spanish manufacturer left behind to tend them. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not everything is Frontpage news.
It would have been known as the "ghost train" because nobody would ride it...
It is actually about the same price to rent a car verses buying subsidized train tickets from Orlando to Tampa which is an hour drive...
The 50 IQ apes at the Washington Post are the most delusional Goebbel’s propagandists to ever infest the globe. If Hitler were still alive, the Washington Post simpletons would be on a cattlecar to Auschwitz.
I am 100% for private capital investment in FOR-PROFIT ventures... afterall, shareholders would not piss away THEIR MONEY the way the government seems to enjoy doing with money that ISN'T THEIRS.
That line might actually make money for private investors...or at least break even at some point...
It's called news judgment which is relative to the clock. At the time it was the lead story on the WashPost Breaking News site.
High speed rail can’t falter soon enough as far as I am concerned.
No - it's called spamming.
The two trains now sit idle, with five employees of a Spanish manufacturer left behind to tend them. . .
Has this administration ever bought anything made in the US?
The US doesn’t manufacture passenger railcars anymore after the big bankruptcy at Colorado Railcar a few years ago. Renfe-Talgo of Spain was planning to build passenger railcars here, but the deal fell apart when three states decided not to participate.
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