They TRIED to ram a national high speed rail through that was center hubbed in Chicago (SUPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!). BILLIONS of dollars for friends of Obama.
Who knows how much money has already been spent on this or who got it.
The Obama Administration tried to strongarm Florida’s governor Rick Scott into building a high-speed rail project in this state a few years ago, to be funded by a state tax (which Florida doesn’t have). Fortunately, Scott told him to take a hike. Why would anybody want to take a train from Tampa to Orlando when you can drive there, on your own time and your own schedule? You’d have to drive to the train station, park your car somewhere, and then rent another car when you get to your destination. And building the rail system would provide a few jobs for a little while, and then we’d be stuck paying for it forever while very few people use it. I am so glad I don’t live in California.
Once we get self driving cars, which are very close to being on the roads, the whole public transportation model falls apart. The biggest benefit of public transport is that you don't have to drive yourself, which is sometimes good, but often does not overcome the negatives of having several modes of transport to get to a destimation. But when we have self driving cars, we can go point to point, and still not have to drive ourselves. Plus, all the negatives of public transport are avoided.
Governor Scott has been a mixed blessing. My former boss was on his board to increase employment in the state. (Don’t recall the name of the board.) My boss said that although they didn’t normally meet directly with governor that if they could bring just 50 jobs to the state he’d get on the phone right away himself (the governor) and cut a deal. He stopped the train, which was pure socialist payola to Democratic supporters. But he also signed us up for a huge Medicaid increase and he authorized the prosecution of George Zimmerman. (Although he personally selected a prosecutor I felt was doomed to failure from the beginning.)
Florida’s rail project didn’t even go to Disney.
A million folks a year fly in to Tampa International from mostly Latin America.
Most are not the best of drivers which everyone knows who has driven I-4 in the last 20 years
And of those million folks 11 are there for other than Disney
So high speed rail here is brainless
They TRIED to ram a national high speed rail through that was center hubbed in Chicago (SUPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!). BILLIONS of dollars for friends of Obama.
Who knows how much money has already been spent on this or who got it.