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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by oltmannd [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by garr amtrak-tom, By what is in the original story, the Northeast corridor doesn't seem to be in danger. This being the case, if what is proposed comes to be, most of the funding should be shifted form the federal gov't to states in that region. Jay [/quote] The NEC runs thru 9 states (counting DC), 10 if you count the VA extenstion to Richmond as a functional part of the NEC. Do you have any idea how ridiculously hard it would be get all 9 to agree on a funding formula? It's a big enough mess that Metro North controls the NEC from New Rocelle (Shell) to New Haven. It would be similar to the toll road network that was building before the interstate system. You could go almost seamlessly from Boston to Chicago, but there were pieces that each state would never build because it wouldn't help them directly (like I-90 between the NY state line and Cleveland, for example) [/quote] I didn't read every posting here, and its only implied here, but I don't think that anyone brought up the question of what support will there be among the non-NEC members of Congress for funding even the $350M that Bush proposes for the NEC infrastructure. I don"t think Trent Lott or Kay B. Hutchenson will support the NEC when they kill the trains in their states. This is a bone to the Neo-cons, and they will bark at it for weeks, but without a nationwide support system, there will be no support anywhere.
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