Yay for monorails!
posted at 8:02 am on April 14, 2009 by MadisonConservative
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Well, maybe not. However, given “Mayor Dave’s” baptism once he visited the Northwest coast, and how narrowly we had to strike down his desire for a toy train, can a monorail be far off? Doubt it.
A bipartisan group of eight Midwestern governors and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley have joined the call for high-speed train service linking Madison to Milwaukee.
In a letter that was also signed by Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and the eight others, the officials asked federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to give priority to three rail projects in the spending of federal stimulus money set aside for high speed rail.
Now, to be fair, the freeways and roads in this state are so poorly maintained that I could almost get behind this. However, as is often the case with such projects, they’re being put forward for the wrong reasons. Doyle says the trains will lower our dependence on foreign oil, though I would very much like to have heard his opinion on offshore and shale drilling in the US. I’d also like to know how well these trains are built to handle the sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall we have every year.
Um…I mean, coooool. MadiDisney!
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Can you say “Boondoggle?”
Come on Doyle. The state’s budget is way in the red, and you want to spend money on a freaking monorail?
Nethicus on April 14, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Just think of the years and years of employment for the lawyers and land experts as the right-of-way is acquired through all that farm country, private ownership and small towns.
The costs of acquisition would be staggering. Thought of the court costs alone for the eminent domain challenges, much less the delays to the project, makes my brain hurt.
Yoop on April 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Darn you, MadCon! Now I can’t get that stupid Monorail song from “The Simpsons” out of my head!
mjk on April 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Mono–D’oh!
Snowed In on April 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
It’s more of a Shelbyville idea.
Repurblican on April 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Kathleen Falk is disgusting human being. I still blame her for Zimmerman’s death last year.
PimFortuynsGhost on April 14, 2009 at 11:57 AM
They tried this crap in Colorado. They wanted the taxpayers to pay to build a monorail up the I-70 corridor into the mountains. Problem is there is no monorail or mag-lev train in existance that could pull the grade. So they expected us to fork out $50 million just to try to design the train first.
boomer on April 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM
It worked in Ogdenville and North Haverbrook…kinda…
Just don’t buy one from a guy named Lyle Lanley.
JetBoy on April 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Geez, monorails are so 20th century. If these guys are gonna have a boondoggle, the least they could do is go Mag-Lev. 300MPH+ Baby!
Iblis on April 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM