Posted on 07/09/2009 10:15:06 AM PDT by george76
New Mexico, Colorado and Texas are applying for federal funds to study the viability of a high-speed rail system from El Paso through New Mexico to Denver.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Tom Udall, DN.M., said Thursday the three states will submit a joint pre-application Friday for up to $5 million to pay for the study.
Congress has authorized up to 11 high-speed rail corridors nationwide.
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Given the hassle of King Bill’s Rail Road, I don’t think that sucker’s gonna fly. Figuratively or literally.
They’re still enamored with idea’s of a NAFTA corridor
Let’s put the high speed rail on the boarder. Give illegal border crossers fair warning that they will become paste if they are on the tracks when the train is coming through.
Someone enlighten me - what does $5Million pay for? Would it be that hard to determine if folks would ride a train from El Paso to Denver and points between without having to spend five million dollars?
If this was priced out they’d find we’d pay twice as much as air to get there in twice the time. The only way to make this work is by subsidizing it. Great, just great.
5 million for a study ( by ACORN and La Raza ? )
They will need billions for the fight to grab land alone, unless they were able to build it right down the middle of I-25, or do something underground.
Straight shot. Illegals to Denver.
BHO is burning our money.
Air travel is much cheaper.
Yes but of course this $5million isn’t to study where to put it even, right? It is just a viability study?
Let other taxpayers pay for it.
OH thanks now I’ll have heartburn... lol
$5 Million? Thats what Fat Billy slips Udall under the table to put pork in the Health and Environment bills.
El Paso to Denver? Hell yeah!!! Direct connection for the illegals to make it to the center of the country, why not?? From Denver, they have free passage in any direction.
You’re probably right. One between Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver might not be a bad idea given the commuter traffic between them, not sure about going further south though. Even if it were in place, only Denver has enough of a mass transit system to move folks beyond an I-25 corridor light rail system. The Dems there have been building on that in Denver for years.
Why?
The new underground railroad.
It is well known (sarcasm intended)that this is a heavily traveled corridor.
What a crock and what a waste.
How about Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston pinheads?
Of course!
RTD (Colorado’s rail / public transportation body) can’t complete their Denver area light rail on time and on budget. What makes them think that they can get a high speed rail line working?
Arrogance?????
Corridor? Corridor. (scratches chin.) Seems like I've seen the use of that word someplace else lately. Chances are Corridor No. Eleven will end at Kansas City. Right, folks? Wonder who'll drive the 'golden spike?'
Light rail is another slush fund for community organizers in between elections.
Regular pay checks, benefits...then free get out the vote every other year.
A certain Simpsons episode is entering my mind..
Sounds like that train route from Atlas Shrugged.
Liberals are idiots.
Siemens Transportation donated $100,000 to Denver’s light-rail campaign and was rewarded with a $184 million railcar contract.
hey, when cap-n-tax pushes gas to ten bucks a gallon, the illegals won’t be able to drive around, and they’re going to have to get them to Denver for the 2012 presidential vote somehow...
Ritter wants more illegals for his re-election, too.
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Exactly - Texas is huge - we could definitely use a rail system - the one in Houston (light rail) is all of 7 miles long - downtown to the Med center. How about light rail to the suburbs?
Talk to the ruling class, the realtors and the developers, they control how things are done in Houston, the largest cow town in the world. No zoning, no planning nothing socially redeming. Just a big space scraped off on the flat coastal prairie and rice fields and then paved over.
Horrid climate, limited recreation, trapped on one side by the Gulf of Mexico, on another by the vastness of Texas and on the east by a third world country.
At least we have the comfort that Oklahoma sucks so we won’t fall off into the gulf... ;^)
And you are right about Houston - I’m here but it isn’t my home - I can’t imagine a place this large not having zoning.
They will need billions for the fight to grab land alone, unless they were able to build it right down the middle of I-25, or do something underground.”
Fight?
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