The Cato Institute has weighed in on the plan. Needless to say, they have written a scathing review.
LINK: The Midwest Rail Plan: A Disaster Waiting to Happen, By Randal O’Toole
Brief, fair use, and (imo) deliberately inflammatory quote:
LINK: The Midwest Rail Plan: A Disaster Waiting to Happen, By Randal O’Toole
Brief, fair use, and (imo) deliberately inflammatory quote:
Midwestern state transportation agencies have a lot of nerve writing this plan considering that they’ve already clearly demonstrated their incompetence in building such projects. Since 2009, using a combination of Obama high‐speed rail funds, other federal funds, and state funds, Illinois, Michigan, and other midwestern states spent more than $3.5 billion to increase speeds and frequencies of passenger trains on routes between Chicago and St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit, Chicago and Omaha, and others.
~John Perkowski: Moderator: General Discussion: Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Equipment
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