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Anthony: <br /> <br />Ouch! Sting! Yowza! <br /> <br />Now, to your second point, on corridors for HSR whcih "do not have a million plus metropolitan area at each end." <br /> <br />Well two things- one, if some of these routes are feeders, the inention may be to gather traffic at the ends to feed into the higher desnity HSR segment. <br /> <br />However I agree that is not as effective as a city pair operational scheme. <br /> <br />For the latter, there are many ocrridors that violate that rule. One example is (sorry if I am being repetitive!) the Cascades Corridor. Does Eugene really deserve a daily train? Does Roseburg deserve to be called the southern terminus? No to both. Eugene is about, oh, 100-200k pop max. Waaaaayyyy too small. <br /> <br />But it's a pork barrell thing. The point was to a.) make the corridor look as big and impressive as possible, b.) stuff the corridor with "pre approvals" for fed funds, aka porking it up, and c.) placating the locals that "they are important too" to get their support in the next election. <br /> <br />I don't doubt this is similar to many other routes you critique. And yes there are also corridors that could and should be that aren't, because money that could be spent on, say, Houston-Dallas, is being wasted on Portland-Eugene. <br /> <br />Yet another reason to go to some form of funding requiring matching state funds- make the locals prove they're serious before you pour all your money down a hole.
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