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Vote early, vote often! I don't consider it pork. It's a bare bones project. There's nothing I can see in that list that shouldn't be, and a lot that isn't in it that should be. It's essential work, and it will have positive results that will be significant to every consumer in North America. I was in error when I picked up the number "1,200" from the original post in this topic and said it was freight trains. It's actually 500; the other 700 are passenger. (I reread the reports that are now buried in my office). If you figure there are 20 main lines into Chicago, then there would only be an average of 25 train per day per line. If everything was perfectly balanced -- each line shared equal traffic with each other line in Chicago --each line shares with each of the other 19 only 1.3 trains per day in each direction. While the traffic is of course anything but equally balanced, this gives some indication why there aren't going to be that many through trains through Chicago, and why there will be a lot of cars coming off any one route that are split among many other routes. Five hundred trains sounds like a lot, but what's REALLY a lot is the number of combinations of routes: 190. That's the nature of a hub, and it's why Chicago resembles a tangle of yarn that can't be untangled -- only managed. OS
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