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A couple of considerations here: 1) When DOD operations are hampered by obstacles that are fixable, the private corporation or owner usually gets them fixed quickly. The nature of the fix is usually long enough to get DOD through whatever it is they are doing- be it the transit of an Ohio class submarine, or the channel blockage of Pearl Harbor by the skipper of the garbage scow that runs aground. 2) I have heard the 40 mill number bandied about a lot concerning the innauguration. I also heard that something on the order of 150 corporations made significant contributions to the festivities. Which leads to the question: How much taxpayer money is getting spent here? How much would have been spent regardless of who was elected? The uniformed services and Homeland Security would still have been placed on alert; there still would have been a million Inaugural balls; the guest list would still be huge. 3) I know about the towns affected here. The mayors of those towns are much more concerned about the safety of I-95 bridges than the railroad, which has a minimal effect on them. Those who use the NEC to travel from New York to Boston don't vote in those towns. Electric Boat operations and the US Coast Guard Academy don't rely on rail passenger service to do their jobs. The concern over proper function of a bridge over a waterway will bother the locals only when they can't drive over it, or when their livelihood is harmed because of it. Erik
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