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High Speed Rail Put on Fast Track (Michigan)
Dearborn Press & Guide ^ | 5/12/11

Posted on 05/12/2011 12:24:59 PM PDT by sand lake bar

DETROIT — The federal government on Monday awarded Michigan roughly $200 million toward a high-speed rail project that within three years is expected to shave 30 minutes off of a trip from Detroit to Chicago.

The grant was part of a 15-state, $2 billion disbursal that ties into President Barack Obama’s broader goal of connecting 80 percent of Americans to high-speed rail in 25 years.

The majority of Michigan’s funding will go to the development of a 135-mile, high-speed stretch between Dearborn and Kalamazoo, part of the federally designated “high-speed corridor” between Detroit and Chicago. Maximum speeds on the stretch would reach 110 mph.

(Excerpt) Read more at pressandguide.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: mi; rail; train; willie
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To: sand lake bar

This is GREAT! Now DNC thugs and ‘bag men’ can deliver payoffs and bribes to union stooges in even less time than before! This is GREAT! Imagine the welfare losers being able to use food stamps for train fare so that they can purchase large amounts of grass and crack in BIG D and get back to Chi-town to catch a Sox game! This is GREAT!


21 posted on 05/12/2011 12:46:35 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Once Detroit is emptied out, what will the train be used for?


22 posted on 05/12/2011 12:47:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Whoz? Meca? feble?)
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To: MNJohnnie

Hmm...$300 or free ride....$300 or free ride? Let me think. Ok, I’ve decided.

Actually, I’m against this. We just can’t afford it right now.


23 posted on 05/12/2011 12:49:47 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: Doc Savage

See? It’s a helping kind of thing!


24 posted on 05/12/2011 12:51:15 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“The Amazing Jungle Ride!”


25 posted on 05/12/2011 12:52:14 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: Brookhaven

not that long

more like 2.5 hrs MAX


26 posted on 05/12/2011 12:53:49 PM PDT by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: sand lake bar

In other news, lots of your money was pissed away by the federal government.


27 posted on 05/12/2011 12:54:15 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SERKIT

Post of the day.


28 posted on 05/12/2011 12:55:23 PM PDT by BuckyKat (Green = the new red)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Smiling ? Hell, Willie’s nipples probably just exploded.

LOL
29 posted on 05/12/2011 12:55:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: sand lake bar

A plane makes the trip in far less time and does not require the infrastructure investment.

Sure you can drink while you ride but you can also get rolled by the gangbangers who will own this line in no time.

One of the beauties of automotive travel is that you don’t get stuck sitting next to someone who smells badly, passes gas frequently, talks endlessly, or sing rap music for the whole trip. John Rocker was right.


30 posted on 05/12/2011 12:59:39 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: QualityMan

281 miles? In 2.5 hours max?

Besides, this just DNC walking around money. By the time the eminent domain suits work their way through the courts, the environmentalists fight the path of the rail through a mosquito bog (gotta protect the mosquitoes), etc., etc.

Or Zero could issue an executive order and it will be done tomorrow. (/sarc)


31 posted on 05/12/2011 1:01:06 PM PDT by BuckyKat (Green = the new red)
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To: John O

Well, yeah to all that, but I once “got lucky” on a train.


32 posted on 05/12/2011 1:01:51 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: sand lake bar

if there are a thousand people that go from Detroit to Chicago daily, and it is financed by ticket prices, that works out to be a surcharge of less than 10 dollars a ticket.

It certainly could have been financially self-financing.


33 posted on 05/12/2011 1:11:39 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: SERKIT

If that were the case it would be worth the cost but it isn’t. Most of the murder and mayhem would be committed against black people in Chicago and the Democrats don’t care about them. They would still oppose CC.


34 posted on 05/12/2011 1:13:43 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: TSgt

35 posted on 05/12/2011 2:17:18 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: sand lake bar
The Amtrak train presently is scheduled to take 5 1/2 hours between Chicago and Detroit, although the trains are late over 60% of the time.

Even if this expenditure of money achieves everything promised, the trains will be no faster the the Detroit Arrow operated by the Pennsylvania and Wabash railroads 80 years ago (with steam engines and without subsidy).

36 posted on 05/12/2011 2:36:48 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: sand lake bar
And, you can drink while you “drive”!

What happens at either end when you have to drive?

37 posted on 05/12/2011 3:37:48 PM PDT by hattend (Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
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To: hattend

Take a cab? Take a nap? I can only have two drinks—over a four hour period that keeps me legal.


38 posted on 05/12/2011 7:23:50 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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