Passenger Trains To Be In Ohio By 2011
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Ohio is considered front runner in the competition for federal funding to complete the 3-C corridor.
CENTRAL OHIO—The fight for federal money is on, and Ohio is in the race for a piece of the $8 billion that President Obama recently allocated towards improving passenger-rail service.
Passenger trains were expected to be up and running in Ohio by 2010, but the fight for federal money is pushing the project back to 2011.
Governor Ted Strickland is asking for about $250 million to complete the 3-C corridor.
The 3-C corridor would connect Columbus to Cincinnatti, Cleveland, Dayton and stops along some suburbs.
Stu Nicholson, the spokesperson for the Ohio Rail Development Commission, say Ohio is considered a front-runner in the competition for federal funding because the state is working with other Mid-Western and Great Lakes states to share resources.
Aside from transportation, Nicholson points out trains could bring another benefit to Ohio: jobs.
He says there are currently no domestic passenger-rail-vehicle manufacturers and that closed automobile manufacturing plants and skilled auto workers could be put to work on building train cars.
Nicholson says a train ticket will cost you about 14 cents a mile.
That means a one-way trip to Cincinnati or Cleveland from Columbus would cost you about $20 to $25
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We had this train system at one time and the idiots tore it out.
$250 million wont even foot the bill for this thing.
Remember coleman wanted 200 million for 13 miles of lightrail.
14 cents a mile B.S. I took the train from Downtown Baltimore to D.C. last year and it cost $114 bucks round trip.
It’s another lie.
These trains always run in the red anyway they are a dead horse.
Dear Dr. REM22,
Give it up on your hostility prognosis - I don’t even know you..geez, get a life you wet noodle.
You are a perfect example of how pathetic you and your ilk are: Suck it up soldier!
Not to distract from my point - passenger rail is a stupid and money wasdting idea for all of Ohio taxpayers, so I just encourage everone to research the facts and not follow blind leaders like Dr. REM22 and onmytricycle. Ohio has a $2 billion deficit in case you haven’t noticed, and implementing this rail service is like throwing gas on the fire.
In the meantime Dr. REM22, why don’t you spend some time here, and get all you little hurt feelings back in line:
www.drphil.com
Sincerely,
Your torch carrier for free speech!
My feelings aren’t hurt and I don’t want any hugs, especially not from you. However, by anybody’s measure, calling somebody clowns, numbskulls, blind followers, nitwits, and pathetic shows hostility and does nothing to promote reasoned discussion.
Dear Dr. REM22,
Hopefefully, your sniffles have stopped by now.
Contrary to your false assesment, I am not hostile in the very least…see, I have a brain, and I don’t sit around letting losers like yourself and onmytricycle try to cram boondoggle, tax-payer draining ideas like a streetcar, light rail project, or the 3-C project onto the masses by using your warm fuzzy feelings to try and justify the projects.
I don’t know you clowns, but rest assured if I met you in person, I would still stick to my message: Your both numbskulls who ignore facts and reality. Was Paul Revere hostile? Are you saying that I shoul;d have supported COSI’s sales tax increase, the Arena sales tax and now sin tax increase, the choo choo train sales tax, Coleman’s income tax increase? Yeah, I really should listen to you more often…put my arm around you, watch the llittle trains go up and down the tracks empty. How pathetic.
Grow some kahungas - as you said yourself, you don’t even know me. So, as I sit here with my tongue in my cheek, I say to you again, you and your blind followers will not go unchallenged. I say in reality, the 3-C and other boondoggle, money-pit rail projects are unjustified, over-priced, always increasing in costs, under utilzed government waste projects. The need is never based on true demand, either hopeful expectations, or a need to chase Obama’s stimulus money, which someday soon will need to be paid back.
I’ve dbated the facts that support my views with you nitwits. Pick a city - any city, and we’ll talk about the efficiencies of passenger rail. There are none.
Don’t try to push this bull on us - instead, move to a little choo choo train town of your pleasing, and save us all a lot of money.
If I have hurt your feelings again, I think I should let you know that Kroger’s has tissues on sale this week.
It must be exhausting to carry around all that hostility all the time. If you get that upset having an online discussion with somebody you may never meet, what happens when you disagree with somebody in person? You have to be harming your health.
Hey Tricycle boy (onmy(girlie)bike), I see your still captain of the Anal Train. Such a loser. Did you hug your tree today?
Yes, we all know the government workers are unionized, that’s why I stated that passenger rail creates ANOTHER tax-payer driain…government, the worst run entity in the world, is draining taxpayers.
See peabrain, the problem is, have you ever seen one freeway ever closed by a strike? No. Have you ever seen transit strikes shut down the public transit system? Yes. Go ahead, look it up spoke head.
Seriously, don’t you get tired of getting slapped around. Throughout various posts, I have repeatdly proven how passenger rail projects are a farce, marked by huge cost overruns, little utilization, and constant fare increases.
See, you operate on warm fuzzy feelings. I operate in realiy. You fly into a city, pay $2.00 to tale a train trip that is subsidized to the tune of $300+/hour (look up Cleveland), and then come and blabber, “Ohh, it was so neato, we need to build a toy train here”.
Well guess what. Besides being a complete moron, you are completely wrong. Keep comparing the I-70/71 split to a 13 mile rail line that will cost $2 Billion to construct…it only continues to show how ignorant you are.
Rather than continue to waste my carbon fume infested breath on you, just remember this Bike Conducter: It ain’t gonna happen. Take your money pit fantasy and leave town.
My guess is you are a direct cousin of the “Save our Arena By Raising Our Taxes” weenies.
Loser.
And the city and state employees who plow the roads, repair the potholes and do the construction aren’t unionized?
Alternative fuels? What a joke. Soon? It’s been thrown around for at least a decade. How much longer? And with 2 of the big 3 restructuring and declaring bankruptcy do you honestly think that we’ll see any innovation any time soon? Not to mention the fact that any new alternative fuel vehicles will be expensive (look at the hybrids) for the first 5-10 years until technology and demand catch up to facilitate a cheaper product. So great for those with the cash. Not so great for those without who are getting gouged at the pumps.
No where to go when you get off a train? Seems we have found a way to get around from the airports. At least with a train, you are often in a downtown area with plenty of transit options, easy access to cabs, easy walking distance in some cases or a quick bike ride.
2 billion dollar deficit? Maybe we should halt the unnecessary 1.6 billion, 5 mile 70/71 split project.
Streets are funded by tax dollars, and they are used HEAVILY by cars, mortorcycles, emergency vehicles, and freight haulers.
It is a fact that public transit carries a measly percentage of trip activity, but requires endless, huge subsidies. Unions control public transit - when they go on strike, guess what? Your public transit stops cold in its tracks.
I completely understand disabilities and that not all can drive. My point is trains are not the solution. Van pools, car pools, etc., are a much cheaper and reliable alternative.
Trains on the other hand, is an alternative leading down the road to disaster.
You may not always be able to drive. Illness, loss of vision, accident, all could lead to a loss of independence. You could lose your job and have to give up your car. With passenger rail you would have another option for transportation. Public money subsidizes air travel through the air traffic control system and pays for maintenance of the interstate highway system. It is called PUBLIC transportation.
What a joke - the justification for this boondoggle idea is to chase Obama’s money - not to meet demand. Further, passenger rail is a another heavily subisdized tax operation, controlled by unions who drive costs up and up in a never ending spiral.
People want person freedom. Cars will soon be running on alternative fuels and remain much more safe, faster, and less expensive than a choo choo train that leaves you at a station with no where to go.
Who is going to pay to operate this thing? The state has a $2 BILLION dollar deficit problem, and now we want to add a new $15 million dollar expense to appease the train jollies? Please…
Unemployemnt is going up, we are in a recession. Anyone who thinks this project is going to help is smoking the same crack pipe that Stu Nicholson is smoking. While this idea will never make sense, it would at least make sense if there was a demand for it, the economy was growing, unemployment was low, and the State had money to operate the stupid thing. None of these conditions exist.
$.14/mile? You are nuts Stu. Quit throwingout numbers until you are far enough in the project to state what the real costs will actually be. Do a google search on any major city, and you see that due to high costs, nearly all train systems are cutting service and/or raising fares.
No thank you. Blow this thing up before we go back into the 1800’s mode of tranportation again.
In the meantime Stu, visit your local toy store and buy yourself a little toy train.
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