Posted on 01/24/2017 7:52:55 PM PST by amorphous
President Donald Trump’s team has compiled a list of about 50 infrastructure projects nationwide, totaling at least $137.5 billion, as the new White House tries to determine its investment priorities, according to documents obtained by McClatchy’s Kansas City Star and The News Tribune.
The documents, circulated within the congressional and business communities, offer a first glimpse at which projects around the country might get funding if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to renew America’s crumbling highways, airports, dams and bridges.
Among the projects could be a new terminal for the Kansas City airport, upgrades to Interstate 95 in North Carolina and the construction of a high-speed railway from Dallas to Houston.
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Amount going to SEIU:
ZEEEEERO...!
No insane billion dollar light rail projects in California on the list...
Light rail is just a souped-up trolleycar. The California project is high-speed rail like the French TGV. Two totally different modes.
“Among the projects could be a new terminal for the Kansas City airport, upgrades to Interstate 95 in North Carolina and the construction of a high-speed railway from Dallas to Houston.”
Can Kansas City build their own airport terminal and could a private corporation bulfd that Houston to Dallas high speed rail?
I like the last one: Chokechicken and Sierra Madre Wind Energy in Wyoming. There’s only about a half-million people in the whole state, that shouldn’t be much money.
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No giant water hoses either, I hope!
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That must mean something different in Wyoming.
WY has one County that voted for Hussein 2x and then H->.
No, but maybe a high speed rail from Dallas to Houston. Also an effort to spend money on rural America’s infrastructure, something that has been sorely neglected for the last decade or so.
I thought the Regulators were from Cheyenne....
I dont know but I got a closet door and a porch that needs fixing.
Would that fall under infrastructure :)
The article states that much of the funding will be coming from the private sector.
Instantly doing the “shovel-ready jobs” Obama promised to do before he funnelled the money to big donors, the DNC, and himself.
I’ve been hearing about a high speed train from Austin to Houston for a long time. First I’ve heard of a Dallas to Houston train.
“Can Kansas City build their own airport terminal and could a private corporation bulfd that Houston to Dallas high speed rail?”
High speed will never be built by a private company in our lifetimes. They lose money on just operating costs. Company would never recover the investment and keep losing money year after year just to operate it.
The subsidy required to operate light rail, commuter rail, and high speed rail are appalling.
First ones in the colonies were in NC and SC. The name and the concept spread westward with the pioneers I guess, many former Regulators went over the Blue Ridge into what later became Tennessee to escape royal warrants after the Regulator War in NC. They played a major role in the Overmountain Men who were instrumental in defeating Ferguson and the British at Kings Mountain.
All that money got sucked into the bureaucracies and special-interest groups. Trump's money is going directly to the builders who are going to get things done.
In all honesty, if Trump continues on this trajectory and keeps his promises, he could surpass Coolidge and Reagan and be the greatest President since Lincoln.
I’m sure Trump’s looking at that. He wants the “private sector” to BOOM!
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