[Right Wing Assault]

The train is dead. Thank you, Governor-elect! They’re totally overpriced for the few passengers that would ride the 3-C corridor. And the stupid thing is supposed to start out averaging 47 mi/h. Which means the novelty would quickly wear off.

[namvolunteer]

Has anybody seen Willie Green recently?

[Nowhere Man]

The train is dead. Thank you, Governor-elect! They’re totally overpriced for the few passengers that would ride the 3-C corridor. And the stupid thing is supposed to start out averaging 47 mi/h. Which means the novelty would quickly wear off.

We are not much of a train nation anymore, we love our cars, that's simple. Rail is OK for freight though, but I'm glad Kasich realizes we cannot fund this nor should we waste the money. IIRC, I can't remember where I read this but average speed of a train was higher in 1900 than it is now.

BTW, Kasich is from McKees Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburgh which is near me.

[CedarDave]

We could have used Kasich eight years ago. Bill Richardson used just under 1/2 billion targeted for road construction to build Richardson's Railroad which serves several hundred passengers per day in NM along the relatively sparsely populated Rio Grande corridor (compared to big cities like Chicago). It travels from small towns Belen and Los Lunas to ABQ then north to Santa Fe. It runs generally alongside 75 mph I-25 and for the final 15 miles to SF in the highway median! Operating costs are paid 87% by taxpayers and only 13% by passengers (I suspect its actually under 10% if the accounting was done properly.) King Richard has less than 60 days left in his reign, replaced by a Republican.