Posted on 01/19/2011 5:12:50 PM PST by GrootheWanderer
I would never want to suggest that someone in government is playing fast and loose with the figures.
But when it comes to the Georgia Department of Transportation’s estimate that between 2.6 and 4 million people per year will ride some part of the proposed high-speed rail line between Chattanooga and Dalton, that is exactly what I am suggesting.
And, unfortunately, it is the state’s release of figures like these that prevent us from having a real debate on whether this rail line is even needed.
But first, let’s look at the numbers.
According to Amtrak, about 28.7 million riders used its rail service during its 2010 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30. That is its total ridership for the entire nation, including the busy Northeast corridor, where about 10.4 million people rode the rails between Washington, D.C., and Boston.
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Meant to ping y’all to #20...
Willie was fun to poke, that’s for sure. Now he’s over at that new site badmouthing JimRob like a good little ZOTtee. A few current FReepers are helping him with his whining, bitching and badmouthing too.
The place is already a cesspool that attracts 9/11 truthers, homosexualists, potheads, DUmmies, libtards and other assorted morons. I had to shower because I felt so grimy after I read some of the posts. LOL
The most treasonous of these assorted morons are the insolent bastards who go over to TBF and deride Jim Robinson and Free Republic, and yet still have the gall to come back here and post.
Two-faced-traitors, all.
Two-faced-traitors, all.
Posters who do that are scummy losers in real life. They sit in mommy's basement all day, smoking dope, eagerly reading Alex Jones nutjuob conspiracy theories and trashing conservative sites with stupid, repetitive, incoherent posts.
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