[milwaukee-electric] Re: 1949: National City Lines conspirators are convicted.

[Gary Schnabl]

Don et al.
Thank God for conservative governors... Liberal enclave cities like 
Madison and Milwaukee got thwarted from their high-speed-rail (HSR) 
boondoggle. Ditto for the other two states you cited. I always was more 
than satisfied with the private-sector Badger Bus, though, for traveling 
between those two cities.

  In the event you have not read it, George Will is now persona non 
grata or public enemy #1 among the passenger-rail folks after his recent 
magazine article: 
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/high-speed-to-insolvency.html .

Passenger rail was a better option when (1) there were fewer 
alternatives in the 19th and very early 20th centuries and (2) when 
cities were smaller and more compact. Its time has come and gone. 
Railroads no longer determine which cities will succeed and which will 
fail (by not having them). I am essentially a ***freight*** railroad fan 
alway, having once a chance to become a railroad engineer, but talked 
myself out of it eons ago when in my twenties. But, I get second 
thoughts every so often about that.

I don't know about your 45 states, though. Could it be that others 
believe in there also being a total of sixty US states? Obama once 
mentioned during 2008 that he had visited 57 states on his campaign 
trail, and there were only three more states yet for him to visit...

Later,
Gary


On 3/19/2011 5:25 PM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Gary S and list;   You're missing all of the auguements for; electric
> rail transit.
> It is not true, that rail transit is more expensive....  Edson L.
> Tennyson, an emminant Transit Professional Engineer, declares that
> (breifly listed here) constrictopm may be more expensive but, the
> 'plant', once built, will last at least twice as long, or more, without
> any major rebuilding.  Routine ispecton and maintainance is all that s
> required.
>
> You don't get that with Freeways, nor Tollways.  Back in the '90's, we
> learned taht I 94 requires a new surface every 8 to 12 years, average
> 10.  The cost at that time was; one milion dollars... PER MILE.
>
> Of course, it is even more expensive, today.
>
> Wake up, America, 45 States already have.   The remaining 3 contiguous
> States are still asleep. (Florida. Ohio and Wisconsin)......
>
> There is nothing Free, about the Freeway
>
> Don L. Leistikow... New Berlin, Wisconsin


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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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