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| Author: | Regionite [ Tue May 10, 2011 3:06 am ] |
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This is a ridiculous waste of money! http://www.nwitimes.com/business/transp ... 9a80c.html A future high-speed rail line passing through Northwest Indiana just became $196.5 million faster with the Obama administration's granting Monday of more than $2 billion for such projects in the Northeast, Midwest and California. The money will pay for track rehabilitation and new signaling that could boost train speeds up to 110 mph on a 235-mile section of the Chicago-to-Detroit route, cutting 30 minutes off the trip time, said Rick Harnish, of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association. The $2 billion dished out Monday came from repurposing a pot of funds rejected in February by Florida's new Republican governor. Still in the planning stages is the $71.4 million Indiana Gateway project to speed Amtrak trains through Northwest Indiana on the Chicago-to-Detroit route. That money was granted in an earlier round of high-speed rail funding, although the project has yet to break ground in the town of Porter and other locations. 30 minutes faster? For what? An empty train? Does anybody even ride that train?? It's time to separate Amtrak from the Federal purse and let it sink or swim on its own. I don't understand why all this money that states have turned down to build new high speed rail can now be passed over to Chicago, IN, and other places mostly for repair work without Congressional approval. Why can't Congress derail this waste of money in these tough economic times? The Dems claim there's no money to be cut from the budget but here's a fattened pig all ripe and ready for slaughter! And as for being "high speed" it's like claiming 386k Internet is high speed broadband when TRUE high speed broadband in the US is usually more like 15+ MBPS. |
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