Govt. and Money

[bradford]

I agree with Spare. Doesn't the goobermint already have rail service called Amtrak? Oh yeah, that little project is real profitable.

[charlie_the_tuna]

do they really need a high speed train to travel within the state? i'm not sure how long the trip is but it would seem to me a waste of money. yes, there will be jobs but once the project is finished the jobs will be minimal. especially if there's only one leg.

[phatdaddy]

this is a boondoggle from the get go, if it would be profitable to have this service, private enterprise should do it. i live in fl and they have been trying to get theis done for years and athe voters keep voting no..

[THEFERMANATOR]

ORLANDO to TAMPA in the morning is HELL! There is no other way to put it, but the problem is neither of these cities are a dense metropolitian city like you guys have up north. Tampa and Orlando are both big cities, but they are spread out over LARGE areas by comparison to cities like Boston, New York, or Detroit even. We only have a few skyscrapers due to our soil composition as it just cannot support them. The other problem is the proposed TAMPA depo will be ion Channelside which is nothing more than a tourist trap that the city of Tampa funds as it has been a COMPLETE BUST! And the Orlando depo has been rumored to be to Disney which is still a good ways outside of downtown Orlando. It will be nothing more than a bust that will cost tax payers millions if not billions just to keep it running for a short time. If Tampa or Orlando were trightly densely populated and close by to the business didtricts then maybe, but we are not that way so this is nothing more than a government program to psend taxpayers dollars. Like has been stated already, most all of our registrations have doubled or even tripled in just the last few years due to budget shortfalls. How is this going to help anybody except the tourists?

[willy]

The breakdown on the national news is this is another pork barrel type project as the market does not exist to make it profitable even if they came in anywhere near the proposed price tag.
What a shame.

[phatdaddy]

that's the problem with "creating Jobs", the only thing that creates a job is a need. if there is no need, there is no job..

[chumbucket]

We were talking about this at work the other night. I believe that Disney is the major driving force behind this project. The Orlando to Miami and/or Orlando to Ft Lauderdale leg is to aid Disney with their cruise line operations. This high speed rail project will be used mostly by tourists and will be bankrupt in no time. The Amtrak rail that we already have to serve the east coast already costs way to much. So much so that they are hurting as well. Sorry Mr Obama, but the economy certainly is not on the rebound. Not by a long shot.

[LESTERUS]

What about a bullet train from washington to hell ? You can figure it out who would use it