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retmil46 · #4 03-05-2010, 03:00 PM

"Train to Nowhere" - gee, that sounds familiar. Charlotte NC has a light rail project as well for the past few years. 2 or 3 times over budget, only 3 rail cars, doesn't run to or from any place to significantly affect highway commuting or attract customers, etc, etc - and they're determined to keep pouring money into it.

About 4 years ago the mayor of Charlotte and the city council came up to our county to try and persuade our county commissioners to be part of the project - nice little media event when he was tossing around a football and make inane sports references, asking our reps if we were "up for the game". They just wanted to extend the rail line 15 miles into our county to the first town - and oh by the way could you pick up the cost for those 15 miles and also build all the maintenance shops and facilities in your county as well so we don't have to pay for them?

To their credit (at least IMHO) our county commissioners, both D's and R's, unanimously told them where they could stick their choo-choo train.