By: Diane Benjamin At Monday’s Council meeting at was announced they think the formerly $24,000,000 underpass can be built for $22,000,000. This Uptown vanity won’t allow a single car to avoid sitting at a crossing waiting for a train to pass. It won’t stop people from crossing the tracks on foot at other crossings. Compare […]
By: Diane Benjamin Normal will have to keep tossing money to their Tiger Grant Application Service. Just since May 2018, they have spent $348,389.08 trying to get free money: https://blnnews.com/2018/10/15/normal-is-following-the-plan/ The only BUILD (Tiger) grant in Illinois went to Springfield for high-speed rail – see PDF page 27: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/policy-initiatives/327856/build-fact-sheets-121118-355pm-update.pdf The announcement was made yesterday. Where […]
by: Diane Benjamin High speed rail has been shown many times not to be so high-speed. Since it’s still Amtrak, success is questionable. Below is a first hand account from a friend of mine travelling via Amtrak yesterday: So if you are planning on taking the Empire builder train with Amtrak anytime before September 30th, […]
by: Diane Benjamin Did you know the West Market Street rail bridge is going to be closed for a year? The City of Bloomington has the story on their website: http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=563 So far high speed rail has cost $1.5 billion dollars. (pocket change) The project isn’t close to done, but when it is it will […]
By Doug Powers • March 27, 2013 11:57 AM Joe Biden once laughingly (does Joe say anything that isn’t?) referred to former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as the “conductor of the train to the future.” According to the CNN story below, the “train to the future” is a boondoggle — a slow boondoggle — so slow that it just got […]
by: Diane Benjamin Associated Press is reporting the new business generated from the government spending billions for high speed rail. New rail cars, interiors, and a bunch of other gizmos that are required to complete the project. Here’s the difference between capitalists and big government guys: Capitalists don’t steal money from people for their businesses. […]
