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EXCLUSIVE: Trump team compiles infrastructure priority list
The Kansas City Star and McClatchy Washington Bureau ^ | 24 January 2017 | y Lynn Horsley, Steve Vockrodt, Walker Orenstein and Lindsay Wise

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; economy; first100days; infrastructure; itsokbecausetrump; trump; trump45
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“The initial spend on these projects for 2017 is expected to be $150 billion, and the transition team hopes that this type of project will be continued over the next 2 years,” according to the letter.
21 posted on 01/24/2017 8:12:04 PM PST by amorphous
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To: RegulatorCountry
"That must mean something different in Wyoming."

Possibly named during the prior administration.

22 posted on 01/24/2017 8:12:51 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The ones I have read about were involved in the Johnson County War (in Wyo.).


23 posted on 01/24/2017 8:19:52 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Terry Mross
Dallas to Houston (port city) makes more sense, then maybe Houston to Austin, and N.O. (port city), and Dallas to Memphis (port city). :)

What's needed is something like Elon Musk's tunnel plan.

24 posted on 01/24/2017 8:20:18 PM PST by amorphous
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To: Terry Mross

There has been a lot of plans for a train from Dallas to Houston for a long time but believe it ran into trouble because of access to right-of-way. Can’t remember all the details - maybe someone else from Texas has kept up with what’s been going on. God forbid that we have high speed anything between Austin and Houston. Don’t need any more of the Austin types in Houston than we currently have.

Just south of Houston there is more widening of 59 highway and more new sections with name change to I-69 taking shape. Former Governor Perry debacle to do high speed access from Mexico through to Canada.

Houston Mayor on the news tonight stating that Houston is going to be third largest city in the U.S. in a few years. Trying to figure out how we can move out of area within the near future.


25 posted on 01/24/2017 8:25:11 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Paladin2

That was in the 1890s. The War of the Regulation in NC happened just prior to the Revolutionary War. It was the warmup act, so to speak.


26 posted on 01/24/2017 8:29:11 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Paladin2

They were backwoods frontier rabble-rousers here, more on the side of forcing corrupt royal officials to obey the law themselves rather than being purely outlaw, though. Breaking into courthouses and dragging crooked officials out by the heels to be horsewhipped, tarring and feathering, threatening the royal governor to the point that he got on a ship and fled, that sort of thing. Not a whole lot different from what other groups using the same name did further west with frontier justice, I guess, but they were trying to “regulate” the administration of law and justice in colonial NC rather than intentionally be beyond it, to make it more regular and fair in the old archaic sense of “regulate.” NC royal government was really quite corrupt.


27 posted on 01/24/2017 8:30:14 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Terry Mross

Best to keep the libs confined to Austin. They can be dangerous in the real world.


28 posted on 01/24/2017 8:32:31 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: phoneman08

There are plenty of libs in Dallas.


29 posted on 01/24/2017 8:33:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Terry Mross; Grams A

Hyperloop - ultra high-speed public transport unveiled by Elon Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiYb_0wOWqY


30 posted on 01/24/2017 8:34:56 PM PST by amorphous
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To: ponygirl

I’m descended from NC Regulators several different ways. Ninian Hamilton was my sixth great grandfather, he was quite the colorful old Scot. Another fifth great was bound out to Captain Benjamin Merrill after his mother and he were kidnapped by Cherokee and his father, my fourth great, was killed while on a mission to rescue them. That rescue mission was led by Gen. Hugh Waddell.


31 posted on 01/24/2017 8:36:51 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: JennysCool

Exactly


32 posted on 01/24/2017 8:46:16 PM PST by thinden
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To: ModelBreaker

“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.”

Well then the federal government should stay away from it.


33 posted on 01/24/2017 8:46:50 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Maybe greater than Lincoln. . . greatest since George Washington who also led a country to liberty and prosperity from an oppressive government.


34 posted on 01/24/2017 8:48:04 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: 2banana

But there is insane billion dollar Texas rail projects.

Hey, Donald, Texas does NOT need this rail project. Rule of thumb; nix everything with “project” in the title.


35 posted on 01/24/2017 8:48:32 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: JennysCool

“I’m sure Trump’s looking at that. He wants the “private sector” to BOOM!”

If it is going to be funded by the ‘private sector,” why is it proposed that half the money come from the Federal Government?

“The document obtained by the Star proposes funding the projects as public-private partnerships, with half the money coming from private investment.”


36 posted on 01/24/2017 8:50:20 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Grams A

If high speed rail from Houston to Dallas was viable, the private sector would build a high speed rail from Houston to Dallas.

BTW-How much would you expect a round trip ticket aboard Federal High Speed Rail would cost?


37 posted on 01/24/2017 8:54:17 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: RegulatorCountry
Those Hamiltons had quite a colorful history on the Scottish border as well...which is how a lot of them ended up in North Carolina! I think my folks were too far east to be connected with the Regulation. It's my understanding it was focused mainly from Alamance to the west.

I am currently trying to determine if my 6x g-grandfather, who fought at Camden II (Hobkirk's Hill) in SC, was with Greene on the Race to the Dan and at Guilford Courthouse. Exciting stuff!

38 posted on 01/24/2017 8:54:40 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: amorphous
I scanned the list.

I saw some electricity grid entries, but not nearly enough.

I would put the updating, hardening, and provision for much standby capacity for our power generating and delivering systems (but not including bird-murdering wind) as job priority one.

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39 posted on 01/24/2017 8:54:41 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Terry Mross

This might actually be profitable. If there’s any high-speed light rail that could pay for itself, this is it. The traffic between Dallas and Houston on week-ends is quite stunning. I’ve heard it is just as bad during the week.

I have to make the drive to visit my son, but he’s about 45 minutes south of Houston. I’d be happy to take a high speed rail to Houston then rent a car. It wouldn’t cost more than the long drive and would save time and wear and tear on my car.

There is already a bus that a lot of people use, but it’s still subject to traffic delays.


40 posted on 01/24/2017 8:56:00 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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