Posted on 06/03/2004 12:23:38 PM PDT by K1avg
Alright, folks, time to kill the useless liberal initiative that ignorant voters approved. The high-speed rail will cost Florida over $17 billion over 35 years.
Any Florida FReepers who haven't already need to contribute their signature to the DEBT campaign (www.debtpetition.com). We've only got 10% of what we need to put it on the ballot so far. Help out!
Florida ping!
I think one of you had the FL ping list. Please send this out to as many Florida FReepers as you can.
Bullet train is useless. Small portion of funds should be diverted to creating real transportation solutions to real transportation problems: There should be a mass transit system in Orlando.
$17 Billion?
Better double that.
I have never seen a government project come in on budget.
I believe we have a law about pinging Willie.
The problem with rail systems outside the Northeast corridor is there is no efficient way to get from the rail station to the place you need to go. There is talk about building a high speed system to run from SF to LA. Nobody seems to ask the question once say I go to LA how will I get to the place I need to be.
Whats the price difference between a bullet train and another I-4 expansion project? Florida needs to get with the 21st century and install some type of rail service. Whether its a subway for the greater metro areas or another form of mass transportation.
Now that is going way too far. I'll ping my willie any damn time I want to.
No. You signeda petition for banning di-hydrogen monoxide.
You're absolutely correct in that better transportation is needed, but a point-to-point bullet train is not the answer. Sure, jumping on I-4 or the Turnpike may take a bit longer, but what happens when you get to your destination, just like mkj noted. You're on your feet. No car, and taking a taxi costs more than driving there (barring major gridlock). A metro in Orlando would be the best use of this money, were it to be forced to go to railway projects. As it stands, the bullet train is stealing money from our highways and roads.
Sure, if it were free, it would be pretty cool. But $17 billion? That's obscene. The money would be much, much better spent on our roadways or the gawdawful education situation - maybe paying off the equally stupid class-size initiative.
Depends on what's available at your destination: taxi, bus, courtesy van to your hotel, light rail, rental cars, airlines...
Heck, you might even hop into your own car if it's a return trip and you left it there previously.
Didn't Florida actually make this an amendment in their Constitution? So, it's not merely stopping a project, but overturning a constitutional amendment?
Build the Los Angeles-Las Vegas bullet train instead!!!
A subway in Florida?
That's called a "submarine."
I think we ought to DERAIL Florida, period. This thing with Terri Schiavo is the last straw. Apparently, it's perfectly all right with many Floridians to starve an innocent living breathing disabled woman to death. Florida is NOT a place I'm interested in and they can take their speed train and SHOVE IT where the sun don't shine. http://www.terrisfight.org
Most sane people considered the wording on the ballot to be unconstitutional. Of course, the Florida Supreme Court didn't see it that way.
We have Governor Jeb, and I think he's doing more to help Terri than any other Republican or Democrat would.
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