North Carolina = the state that has gone from Mayberry RFD to an economic powerhouse.
Ohio = a state that risks going from an economic powerhouse to Mayberry RFD.
Ohio = a state that risks going from an economic powerhouse to Mayberry RFD.
Oh, by the way Ohio Senator Tom Patton: two-thirds of NC's Charlotte-Raleigh trains DO NOT travel beyond those two cities to the Northeast, as you claim.
Editorial from a Charlotte NC paper:
N.C. should pursue unwanted rail money
Ohio, Wisconsin may help high speed program in Southeast.
Posted: Monday, Nov. 22, 2010
We've long thought a lot of the states of Ohio and Wisconsin for their many contributions to American history, culture and prosperity, not to mention airplane inventors, football teams and cheddar cheese. So it was with particular appreciation that we recently read of those states' newly elected governors' intentions to refuse $1.2 billion in federal rail money to develop high-speed rail projects in those areas.
As Ohio Gov.-elect John Kasich so elegantly put it, "That train is dead." He was referring to a proposal to link Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus with passenger rail service that would ply the Midwestern route at a stately 50 miles per hour. Kasich wants none of it. And Wisconsin Gov.-elect Scott Walker doesn't want money for train service between Madison and Milwaukee.
Good. We take the governors at their word when they say they don't need the money their predecessors had applied for and been awarded. But there are other states with traffic congestion problems and significant air travel delays that would be delighted to have all or part of the money Ohio and Wisconsin don't want. California is one of them, but with the Golden State's budget problems that dwarf North Carolina's, sending the money to the West Coast may not be the best use of it.
Full editorial at: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/22/1857259/nc-should-pursue-unwanted-rail.html
N.C. should pursue unwanted rail money
Ohio, Wisconsin may help high speed program in Southeast.
Posted: Monday, Nov. 22, 2010
We've long thought a lot of the states of Ohio and Wisconsin for their many contributions to American history, culture and prosperity, not to mention airplane inventors, football teams and cheddar cheese. So it was with particular appreciation that we recently read of those states' newly elected governors' intentions to refuse $1.2 billion in federal rail money to develop high-speed rail projects in those areas.
As Ohio Gov.-elect John Kasich so elegantly put it, "That train is dead." He was referring to a proposal to link Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus with passenger rail service that would ply the Midwestern route at a stately 50 miles per hour. Kasich wants none of it. And Wisconsin Gov.-elect Scott Walker doesn't want money for train service between Madison and Milwaukee.
Good. We take the governors at their word when they say they don't need the money their predecessors had applied for and been awarded. But there are other states with traffic congestion problems and significant air travel delays that would be delighted to have all or part of the money Ohio and Wisconsin don't want. California is one of them, but with the Golden State's budget problems that dwarf North Carolina's, sending the money to the West Coast may not be the best use of it.
Full editorial at: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/22/1857259/nc-should-pursue-unwanted-rail.html
Ken Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
