What is it with RATS and trains?
To: Libloather
Such a tourist attraction...and must see cities. Everyone wants to visit Detroit and Chicago
To: Libloather
Detroit is the "Beirut" of the U.S.A.
Having high speed rail needs only to go in one direction-----> AWAY FROM DEETROIT.
(That is, until the gangs steal the trains)
4 posted on
10/05/2011 3:18:56 PM PDT by
traditional1
("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: Libloather
Such a tourist attraction...and must see cities. Everyone wants to visit Detroit and Chicago. Could stop by and see Obama’s home in Chicago, visit Oprah and even drop by the prison and see if Blago is there OR there is always the mosque, motown and what is left of motor city Detroit.
To: Libloather
Oh yeah, I want to take the train to Dee troit.
To: Libloather
I don’t understand this at all.
Chicago has great food so why would they need high speed rail to get Soilent Green from Detroit?
Detroit has been destroyed from within and I sure don’t want my hard earned tax dollars going to this obvious effort to buy union jobs.
8 posted on
10/05/2011 3:26:17 PM PDT by
Wurlitzer
(Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
To: Libloather
That ought to pay for maybe 10 miles.
9 posted on
10/05/2011 3:27:14 PM PDT by
boomop1
To: Libloather
What is it with RATS and trains? The green weenies have a dream of forcing everyone to live in cities, with everything in between designated wilderness areas. They hate cars, because cars make you independent, and they want people dependent on government for everything. Finally unions love them because they create union jobs to build them, then permanent union jobs to run them.
11 posted on
10/05/2011 3:31:31 PM PDT by
Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
To: Libloather
Sounds like they are getting a deal for the price! Here we are going to have to pay a bit more than half of that for a streetcar that goes a few blocks, from the center of downtown to a Very Scary Neighborhood that is used as a stand-in for Harlem by Hollywood.
Could buses travel the same route? Of course. Why a streetcar? Somebody is raking in the money.
Which answers much of why the left is so thrilled with rail travel.
Trains aren't even that wonderful in Europe. My buddy in Germany said the trains aren't safe for women traveling alone...
13 posted on
10/05/2011 3:35:22 PM PDT by
Nepeta
To: Libloather
Wow. Who would want to go to Detroit these days in the first place? Especially at high speed.
15 posted on
10/05/2011 3:38:31 PM PDT by
Wiggins
To: Libloather
For Chicagoans bored with the adventure of taking the Green Line west.
17 posted on
10/05/2011 3:41:47 PM PDT by
Stosh
To: Libloather
This makes no sense. Maybe back in 1950 when Detroit was the fifth biggest city in the country and Chicago was second. But even back then the major transcontinental trains did not go through Detroit, they passed south on the route of the Twentieth Century Limited or today's Lake Shore Limited.
This will be another boondoggle, like New Mexico's Road Runner.
To: Libloather
I live right near the line in question just west of Ann Arbor. I see the trains every day and I can tell you that except near holidays or break time at U of M the AMTRAK trains are empty.
Now they will probably put up fences along the tracks, ugly my backyard view up, and block my access to my fishing spot on the Huron river so empty trains can get to Chicago 30 minutes faster.
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To: Libloather
Aack, we don’t need it. Who wants to go to Chicago anyway? Worse yet, who wants to go to Detroit?
To: Libloather
And with all the graft and corruption in Chicongo and Detroit it will cost the taxpayers 5 times the 196 Mill, and that is only for the “part” that will never be used.
25 posted on
10/05/2011 4:08:11 PM PDT by
chainsaw
(I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
To: Libloather
Subsidized public transportation vs. private auto’s and airlines.
ACORNonomics in action.
26 posted on
10/05/2011 4:18:37 PM PDT by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Libloather
27 posted on
10/05/2011 4:23:38 PM PDT by
iowamark
(Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
To: Libloather
A high speed rail system linking the most corrupt city in America with the biggest welfare disaster of a city in America—what could go wrong?
Follow the money. All contracts will be limited to union contracts and the cost overruns will be astronomical and the track will be laid just as good as the ceiling in the Boston tunnel.
30 posted on
10/05/2011 4:53:19 PM PDT by
cashless
(Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
To: Libloather
The S-bahn (8) between Wiesbaden and Hanau, Germany could be the model. Unemployed junkies, druggies, student-type “revolutionaries”, their bikes and their dogs? What a great pamphlet it would make, eh? Sooo, run that by me again- Detroit to Chicago and back because...?
32 posted on
10/05/2011 6:06:45 PM PDT by
equaviator
( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: Libloather
Let the Chicago political crooks pay for it.
Better yet put them all on for the first ride and secretly build the end of the line straight to the closet Illinois Prison.
34 posted on
10/05/2011 7:54:37 PM PDT by
Revel
To: Libloather
Mousellini and Hitler were similarly directed toward trains.
37 posted on
10/06/2011 8:06:48 AM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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