Saturday, January 30, 2010

A More Green Rail Proposal

Rail projects are receiving a lot of attention, and stolen money.  Here’s some commentary and analysis on Tampa’s and Phoenix’s rail proposals.  Michigan and Indiana are also attempting to get their hands on some of these stolen monies, amongest other states, as rail fantasies are hot, hot, hot.

In response to these rail pitches, Jeffrey Quick offers A modest counterproposal to Gov. Strickland’s rail project

...…stagecoach service between Cleveland and Youngstown, running on Highway 422.

This counterproposal would be valid for any of the above mentioned rail project fantasies.

Some additional positives to Quick’s counterproposal.

Stagecoaches are green, much greener than locomotives. Horses run on renewable and Ohio-grown hay and oats. Coaches are primarily built of renewable wood…Local talent, local jobs…Economic development. Given that the trip will take about a day and a half, there will be need for hospitality services…Animal rescue.  Since it’s no longer legal to slaughter horses for food in the Land of the Free, there’s a problem with people abandoning horses. PETA can lobby the state government to put these horses to work instead of shooting them,...

Quick’s proposal also acknowledges the time factor complaint/justification involved in these rail proposals, and thoroughly smashes it.

The other objection will be time. Why should people spend a day and a half making a trip that they could make in an hour and a half? If you have to see somebody NOW, why aren’t you doing it on Skype?

Enjoyable Saturday morning read.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/30 at 10:24 AM
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