Yep -absolutely true.
Here in central NC, we have had tons of money paid by taxpayers/governments (and some private funds) for YEARS to try to get a commuter train set up to connect Raleigh to the Research Triangle Park since I40 to the Park is such a traffic nightmare at times.
It is a TOTAl waste of money - even though the Democratic Mayors of Raleigh and Cary and the Democrats in the NC Legislature and Governor’s mansion and other (Dems mostly) have been pushing for it for so long.
It hasn’t gotten off the drawing board yet - THANK GOD - but those billions have still been set aside to make it so - do those studies - etc etc etc.
so here the Dems come again - more billions down the train drain in the midst of a recession/depression. Yeah - that’ll help things / not.
Same thing between Atlanta and Chattanooga. The powers that be have been pushing for a high speed train between Atlanta and Chattanooga for years. It's been studied to death at the cost of untold millions of taxpayer dollars. There isn't anywhere near the demand for it that would be necessary to support such a hefty "investment". When you look at what they are really trying to accomplish you quickly realize that the corridor of land seized to build it would also be used for a water pipeline from the Tennessee River to a thirsty Atlanta, along with a return line for treated sewage to replace what is taken. I'm sure everyone down stream of Chattanooga is going to love drawing their drinking water from a source where Atlanta dumps it's turds.....