by Tadman
As a South Bend native, I'd note that Notre Dame wasn't anti-railroad. When the NS(conrail) pulled out of the ex-MC branch to ND and Niles decades ago, the university kept their little yard goat for moving coal along a now-isolated line from yard to plant. When a private individual recently expressed interest in buying the dormant NS branch, the bums in the rotten part of town where the branch is located decided they were anti-train because, in their view, it was unsafe and noisy to run coal trains through town. Never mind the unsafe and noisy coal trucks running through town and tearing up publicly-funded streets...
The bums leaned on the elected officials, who leaned on the university admins, and suddenly everybody's against the railroad. Crummy deal if you ask me. That's why I left that town when I went to college and haven't come back. The area is quite stagnant both economically and culturally (and unfortunately, athletically, too) with little prospects for change.
I also find it ironic that a university, typically a haven to left-leaning individuals, is anti-rail transit, a cause championed by the left. It's like my dad used to say, "don't bother me with the facts, my mind is made up"...
Oh well, here's to hoping the Dinky won't be cut anymore than it already has.
The bums leaned on the elected officials, who leaned on the university admins, and suddenly everybody's against the railroad. Crummy deal if you ask me. That's why I left that town when I went to college and haven't come back. The area is quite stagnant both economically and culturally (and unfortunately, athletically, too) with little prospects for change.
I also find it ironic that a university, typically a haven to left-leaning individuals, is anti-rail transit, a cause championed by the left. It's like my dad used to say, "don't bother me with the facts, my mind is made up"...
Oh well, here's to hoping the Dinky won't be cut anymore than it already has.
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