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Trains Save Fuel
WGIL -- Galesburg Radio 14 ^ | Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Illinois Radio Network

Posted on 10/14/2010 1:04:05 PM PDT by Willie Green

(IRN)-An environmental group is touting the fuel saving benefits of the train.

In particular, the savings are measured based on the use of the Metra commuter rail system in the Chicago area: 34.8 million of gasoline a year, assuming all the train riders would have made all the same trips by car, with 1.3 people in the car each time, according to the group Environment Illinois.

Metra served 77 million passengers in 2008, with ridership increasing an average of 1 percent per year since 2000. Its busiest line, the BNSF line between Aurora and Chicago, carries an average of 63,200 passengers each weekday.

Environment Illinois is calling for an adjustment of the federal transportation funding formula to support rail as much as roads. Field associate Sophie Huckabay says the current formula rewards states that adopt transportation policies that promote fuel consumption, a perverse incentive, she says.

The train related fuel savings would accrue, Huckabay says, on expanded Metra service further into the hinterlands, to places such as Johnsburg, Rockford, DeKalb and Kankakee, and high-speed rail Downstate.


TOPICS: US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; environmentillinois; illinois; trainwreck; trainwreckwillie
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To: GonzoGOP; All

Plus the state of Illinois has to bail out Metra..


101 posted on 10/15/2010 3:38:25 PM PDT by KevinDavis (President Obama: The Crybaby in Chief...)
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To: agere_contra
But of course the Greens will hate it. Simply because they are the enemy of Man.

Spot on.
102 posted on 11/03/2010 7:51:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: KevinDavis

I just looked at Willie’s FReep Page.

“This account has been banned or suspended.”


103 posted on 12/09/2010 5:15:22 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear; All

I’m not going to miss him, however, there are other train pushers that are popping up...


104 posted on 12/09/2010 5:39:41 PM PST by KevinDavis (I have no problem with a black president. But the one we have now is yellow to the core)
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To: KevinDavis

There were two, their names escape me, who seemed to be “sock puppets.”


105 posted on 12/09/2010 5:53:36 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear; All

Right, but I think they are gone now and I think one of them was Willie.


106 posted on 12/09/2010 6:03:30 PM PST by KevinDavis (I have no problem with a black president. But the one we have now is yellow to the core)
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To: KevinDavis
Still, you got to admit, Willie was good for a sad sort of amusement. He was like the demented crack head on the street corner yelling at a fire hydrant.

Somehow, he added an untangible wonder to the threads.

107 posted on 12/09/2010 6:07:54 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Willie Green

“How about you???”

I’ve done my best to use mine and enough more to compensate for you riding a choo-choo!


108 posted on 12/09/2010 6:11:38 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Grizzled Bear; All

He was.. He also had a disease called living in the pastitis..


109 posted on 12/09/2010 6:19:40 PM PST by KevinDavis (I have no problem with a black president. But the one we have now is yellow to the core)
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To: All

I believe research has been done on light rail regarding the payback aspect as it relates to rewarding Illinois firms close to the administration—i.e., the “Chicago way.” I also believe Amtrak (which serves Galesburg/Knox and Macomb/Western Ill. Univ. students) is heavily subsidized by the government—not sure about Metra. I am thinking any gas savings more than offset in federal outlays.

It should be noted that this week, Wisconsin told the Feds “No Thanks” to light rail. They feel any benefits are outweighed by the high on-going operating costs. States can say no to federal $. Good for them!


110 posted on 12/09/2010 8:59:52 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: KevinDavis; Notary Sojac

For anybody who misses Willie, here he is doing what he loves to do -

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=299903&Disp=16#C16


111 posted on 12/18/2010 10:20:00 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: lentulusgracchus

I saw your question on the TX message board. See the reply by JR here @# 65, then go to reply #60 and click on Willie’s name. Willie has been given the boot.


112 posted on 01/06/2011 7:50:27 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

W Green: Are you a Marxist, a socialist, or just born stupid?


Stupid, very stupid.

And mean too (see his many angry, mean, ugly, posts).


113 posted on 01/26/2011 3:28:14 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Willie Green; Mase; 1rudeboy; SAJ; expat_panama
We don't have "plenty" of oil.

You were as wrong about this as about trains. LOL!

114 posted on 02/13/2015 4:44:05 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
An oldie but goody. If Willie were here, he'd have a very good explanation for why he's still right.
115 posted on 02/14/2015 6:52:01 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Willie Green

We don’t want any Green trains.


116 posted on 02/19/2019 6:44:58 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: twistedwrench

I didn’t know Socialist had a sense of humor.


Probably took it from somebody else.


117 posted on 02/19/2019 7:48:59 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Jim Robinson

Willie Green left.


118 posted on 01/10/2024 3:45:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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