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Posted on 10/07/2010 6:09:53 AM PDT by Willie Green
I thought they were Rush Limbaugh sockpuppets....no,no, I mean Sarah Palin sockpuppets.
Anyway, they are really all controlled by Fox News.
Alaska Railroad? hahahahaha
That is such a weak and pathetic example.
A short line railroad in an area where there are few roads
and in hostile environment.
Yea, there is even a short line railroad in the smokies,
mostly for tourist.
Yes, the short line rail business is alive, barely.
I had one as a communications customer when I lived in the US.
They barely stay in business, using the multitude of abandoned lines that were at a huge loss to the larger carriers.
Yea sure..just what we need another multibillion dollar boondoggle to haul ten passengers 100 miles for ten dollars each!!!
Well said John.
For the life of me, I cannot understand the Lefts fascination with choo choo trains.
Did mommy and daddy take away their toys when they were little? Made them play with dolls, oops, “action figures”, when they were little or what?
Everyone liked playing with choo choo trains when they were kids. It seems the Left never got over their enjoyment and want to play with full size choo choo trains now.
Truly odd.
Cheers,
knewshound
Just another Progressive RINO
Bullshit... and you know it mr green.
LLS
Unfortunately, you are a sock puppet for construction and operator unions, real estate crooks, enviro-thugs, developers, terrorists, and tyrants.
Calling me a sock puppet for oil companies is simply stupid, but then, stupidity has never stood in your way. BTW, it's the Jimmy Carter LEFT that are the sock puppets for the oil and gas industry, including the environmentalists. You are just too clueless to understand how the system works.
Stop insulting horse $hit. At least it has value as fertilizer.
So here’s a case in point. My nephew lives is a Philly suburb and bought his house because it was near a SEPTA train station. He figured he could commute easily to his office in the center city area. He found out that the only express that made the trip in an hour got him to work too late and home too late. The locals took forever.
So now he gets up early and drives downtown. It takes him less time than the express and costs less even with the parking.
So here’s a already installed operating sytem that doesn’t do what the proponents of new systems promise. It also loses money and sucks up all the transportation supported taxes in Pa.
How’s that progress?
So here’s a case in point. My nephew lives is a Philly suburb and bought his house because it was near a SEPTA train station. He figured he could commute easily to his office in the center city area. He found out that the only express that made the trip in an hour got him to work too late and home too late. The locals took forever.
So now he gets up early and drives downtown. It takes him less time than the express and costs less even with the parking.
So here’s a already installed operating sytem that doesn’t do what the proponents of new systems promise. It also loses money and sucks up all the transportation supported taxes in Pa.
How’s that progress?
Let’s be clear - much of the rail infrastructure in Europe and in particular places like England, pre-dates the car by many, many years meaning we grew up with the train and connecting buses.
Our use of cars was stunted by two wars.
I love to travel from London to Paris and Brussels at 185mph and at a ticket price less than $50.00, but I am aware of just how much public money was spent on this.
Our government is always looking for new projects like this to eat up billions of Pounds to create jobs - but their projects never deliver on time or on budget. I doubt your government can either.
Stay well away from high speed rail.
My wife attended college in Germany. She tried to take the train from our village to downtown Mannheim. She had to switch trains twice and the trip took her about 1 1/2 hours. She could make the same trip in 30 minutes by car so after about two days, she chose to drive. Perhaps she would have toughed it out if we had to pay the German gas prices.
That's what Willie wants for us. He dreams of placing a choker chain around our necks, in the form of exorbitant fuel taxes, so we can be dragged onto the trains that take us to places where we don't want to go.
“I doubt your government can either.”
What government? I am now in the Philippines, haha
There is no rail here.
My rail travel was in central Europe.
None of it was high speed, but it was reliable and
went most everywhere.
It was always my habit to hit the restaurant car
where I could eat and drink wine.
No such thing. If it were, then private companies would have been jumping on the business model.
Like sand through your fingers. Squeeze tighter Willie, squeeze tighter....
All Praise to our Dear Leader 0bamao!!!
Going from out of town into town can take a while. In those cases cars are better. I used to take a four-hour trip that would have been longer and much more frustrating by car or plane, but it was from within a big city to within a big city.
So I take an albeit irreverent stance against the idea of new light rail, etc. and you take a personal shot at me.
Your comment earned the response that it received.
You still haven't answered why private enterprise won't start up their own rail service, sans heavy government subsidies.
Maybe that's because with only half a brain, you don't realize that you never asked that question.
Doh!
Look, it’s Willie, the choo choo troll.
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