The skeletons are still there along A1A...
Posted on 07/23/2010 10:31:08 AM PDT by Willie Green
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says the $425 million Woodward Light Rail Project -- which will run from Hart Plaza to 8 Mile -- "is going to happen" and that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood should be in town soon to announce additional backing.
Bing made the announcement Thursday during a "big four" round table discussion hosted by Paul W. Smith of WJR-AM 760, suggesting the line could help reverse economic and population trends.
"I think it's about more than just transportation," he said. "It's about economic development. Cities that I've been in that have a light rail system, you've seen all kinds of businesses pop up around the system itself -- whether it's the young people that are living in that area, whether there's entrepreneurs that come to the area."
A group of private investors -- including Peter Karmanos, Dan Gilbert, Roger Penske and Mike Ilitch -- previously committed more than $100 million to construct the first phase of the line, known as the M-1 Rail project, which will run from Jefferson Ave. to the New Center.
That group says a similar 3.6 mile light rail project in Portland cost $103 million to construct and resulted in roughly $2.5 billion in local development
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There haven't been rails in the Keys for 75 years.
The skeletons are still there along A1A...
LOL, that could very well be. But I have to say, the creativity of Freepers in their responses (See the above “Monkey-Flying-Butt” explanation above!) does make them entertaining.
They aren’t nearly as acrimonious as the Chet99 threads about pit bulls and eaten faces, but...there are some laughs in here.
Sure, sinking money into rail makes my blood pressure go up. But then I see responses that immediately bring it down...
It’s all good...:)
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny...
However wise, or unwise, Henry Flagler’s investment was at the time, his railroad to Key West came to an abrupt end on Labor Day in 1935.
A group of private investors — including Peter Karmanos, Dan Gilbert, Roger Penske and Mike Ilitch — previously committed more than $100 million to construct the first phase of the line, known as the M-1 Rail project, which will run from Jefferson Ave. to the New Center.
The monkeys are just there for the free Wi-Fi. If not for the free Wi-Fi, the monkey's wouldn't give your butt the time of day. Monkeys are like that.
What talent?
LOL...I don’t think it will work. Willie Green has the internal serenity that can only come to a true believer...:)
Why is this in the religion forum?
It’s in the Religion forum because I have bad eyesight and clicked the wrong button when I was posting.
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