Comments on: The Looming Crisis In Mass Transit

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:08:00 +0000

As a resident of Bloomington-Normal I find the “facts” in this article rather interesting. First, our beloved Mayor is mathematically challenged: It is 165 miles to St. Louis, not 120. It is 130 miles to Chicago, not 150. Next, the building of Uptown Station did not “spur additional investment” as stated. The Children’s Discovery Museum was built several years before the proposal of Uptown Station and the Marriott Hotel also came before this multi-modal transportation center plan came to be.

What the article fails to mention is that somehow we managed to get federal funds to build a transportation center that include a new city hall. In fact, the majority of the building is not transportation related, yet the majority of the funding was the through High Speed Rail dollars. An obvious special thank you needs to go our to US Secretary of Transportation, Illinois’ own Ray LaHood .

By: jim mccommons

jim mccommons — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:59:24 +0000

July 6 Headline:

California lawmakers approved billions of dollars Friday in construction financing for the initial segment of the nation’s first dedicated high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:05:23 +0000

Bob- the Tea Party Express left the station, no wait, it never arrived because your party didn’t want to pay for anything towards civic improvement.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:48:58 +0000

This is one of the most idiotic, one sided articles on mass transit out there! Any reasonable, cursory study of the rail project in California would show you a boondoggle and waste of epic proportions.
The Post continues a one sided statist position in selecting their articles. Unfortunately never giving a balanced view. Sad.