eolesen wrote:
Obama prescribed $11B in high speed spending projects nationwide. Aside from a few construction jobs and a lot of consulting fees, there's not much to show for that.
Double track from Charlotte to Greensboro, a new passenger equipment storage and maintenance yard in Charlotte, a few new (old) train sets for NCDOT and Raleigh Union station (and a bunch of smaller track improvements on the NCRR and CSX A line) were all products of NC's $500 millionish share. All of it is finished and in use (well actually the Charlotte equipment yard is waiting on Charlotte Gateway completion in a couple years)
We are still waiting on an additional Piedmont frequency (possibly late this year IIRC) and we never saw the promised speed increase to 90mph.
Norfolk Southern likes the improvements (and I suspect they wish that the same treatment was given to CLT-ATL trackage).