I guess it could be worse. ;)
Posted on 03/16/2010 9:00:16 AM PDT by Willie Green
Mayor Annise Parker will begin a whirlwind tour of Washington today in which she will try to persuade a skeptical Obama administration not to shelve the Constellation space program, as well as shore up relationships between the city and federal transportation officials.
Parker is scheduled to meet with senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Transportation Secretary Roy LaHood, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and members of the local congressional delegation in a two-day blitz. Shortly after she was elected, the administration had invited her to “open dialogue” on certain key issues in Washington, and today's trip marks her first opportunity to take the president up on the offer, Parker said.
The mayor indicated a key focus for her and other area boosters is to cement Houston's role in the future of space exploration, as well as persuading the president to restart the Constellation program. The $108 billion project represents thousands of Houston-area jobs and would be canceled this year under Obama's budget proposal.
“I don't know what the best plan is for going back to space, for continuing human spaceflight,” she said. “I want to ensure that we are and remain one of the centers of human spaceflight.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Miss Parker is begging for more money for fail-rail in Houston.
What, does the Wham Bam Tram need repainting or something?
Very convincing.
I guess the Montrose crowd didn't back her for her brains.
Every time I hear a politician push for light rail, I am reminded of the Simpson episode where Springfield built a monorail that went nowhere. A sucker is born every minute.
To: a fool in paradise; Action-America
Oh good grief... Is Achtung-Amerika! still posting here?
I haven't seen that crooked tax-dodger in years...
figured maybe they had him locked up for tax evasion or something..
;^)
“We would be much better off spending NASA’s $108 Billion on light-rail, high-speed rail and Maglev.”
We would be much better off staying on the frontiers than building toy trains.
I have no idea - I don’t post around here much, now that excerpting is the norm and substantive discussion seems to have faded out in favor of “let’s hate on Obama and all liberals” two-line posts.
But he used to keep the Wham Bam Tram Collision Counter!
It was a nifty counter at that what with details of each collision.
Both are equally pointless.
Given the lefts disdain of oil and its products, under what rationale should the Fed be interested in investing in Houston? Seems, well counter intuitive from a lefty’s point of view. Clearly, the Fed needs to spend more money on things it agrees with, like toy trains for reliable dem precints (see Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago). Its pretty clear no one will use it but that misses the point of spreading wealth around. Its to buy votes and payback unions.
...because you can’t make your car payment once you’ve been laid-off from your job at NASA....
Yes, they’ve had two bus-rail collisions in two weeks.
That's partly behind making Chicago THE hub for the billion dollar high speed rail system.
But he used to keep the Wham Bam Tram Collision Counter!
I didn't know that...
Of course I'm remembering him from waaaaaay back, long before I moved to Houston...
IIRC, back then he was a rabid anti-tax shill, encouraging people to renounce their citizenship and move offshore to avoid paying money to the IRS.
Needless to say, I thought he was an emotionally disturbed kook.
But the Wham Bam Tram criticism isn't without merit...
Having seen the Houston Metro system, I blame the other vehicles and not the Metro for most collisions. (cars can get out of the way, Metro has to stay on the track.)
Nevertheless, I do agree that in areas like Downtown Houston, they should've made Metro either an overhead monorail or an underground subway. Traveling on the downtown streets themselves doesn't really do much to alleviate congestion there.
Another train / bus collision yesterday.
I guess it could be worse. ;)
At the same intersection.
So, now they'll do a "study." I wonder how much that's going to cost us?
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