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Interesting how the politicians demand it be kept running and maintained yet don't talk about where the $30-$50 million in repairs to the existing track or the
by JohnTHaller 8y ago
Interesting how the politicians demand it be kept running and maintained yet don't talk about where the $30-$50 million in repairs to the existing track or the $55 million to install the required positive train controls safety systems will come from.
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- moorhosj 8y agoI find it interesting that politicians increase military spending by $100 billion or we cut future revenue by $1 trillion and nobody bats an eye. Meanwhile, people hem and haw over $50 million to maintain critical infrastructure.
- losteric 8y agoRich people sell guns, poor people ride trains. Not all of them, obviously, but enough to "guide" the decisions of career politicians.
- ghaff 8y agoBy and large poor people ride buses or drive. Buses go a lot places trains do not and, in the Northeast, buses are far cheaper than trains. Get above about 500 miles or so and planes are often cheaper.
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- vkou 8y agoIf there was a highway bridge that needed $50 million in repairs, those same politicians wouldn't bat an eye, before signing the cheque. That is, if they didn't earmark $2 billion to replace it.
- munk-a 8y agoEspecially if Boeing offered to build the bridge with an advanced tactical HUD and friggin lasers n'stuff. That bridge would go all "pew pew"... And would maybe employ two people per-state in design while the contractor pocketed most of the difference, still that's the way it goes these days.