The tried to put one in from Chicago to Minneapolis, bought a fancy hi-speed Spanish made train, then looked around at buying the necessary right of way, figured out the costs without massive subsidies, add subsidies back in, demanded an increase in state tax to pay for the State’s share, counted up the ridership and there it stopped - there was no one who would ride it other than occasionally - no one commutes from Chicago to Minneapolis. With all the stops, the train would not average above 30-40 mph.
Then the scaled back to Chicago to Madison, ran into exactly the same problems - even the drive time with heavy traffic was faster. The Madison station was so far out that it would have been a 15-20 minute taxi ride to the city.
We have such trains because it is a long standing ‘dream’ of liberal to crowd every one into cities, where the city would control everyone’s daily life, issuing permits to leave the city on case by case. Rail would be the ‘wonderful’ environmentally correct was to connect the cities. So the libs push their dopey dream as long as we are dumb enough to pay for it.
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Do you have your self-driving prison car yet?
They’re all the rage!
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