Oink Oink!!!
Welcome to one of the biggest pork-spending boondoggle also known as the “3 C Corridor” it will connect Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland.
This all sounds like a good idea in theory, except that every single person who does not live on the island of Manhattan actually owns a car and has no use for a train. Last time I check we just spent 10 billion on American car companies to keep them producing cars, maybe we should buy some of them? Amtrak estimates that it will take $17 million a year annually to subsidize a train that no one is going to ride.
Furthermore this plan is not going to be free. Even though it is also federal dollars they still have to come from somewhere. The cost is going to be around $400 Million dollars. Yes dollars, not yen, or rubles good ole American Greenbacks, all 400 million of them.
The third reason this is a terrible idea is that the trains are going to go 79 MPH*. Yes that sounds quite fast, maybe a little faster then you would drive in your car. This is the best reason I have heard so far for building a train, oh there is one little note. Factoring in all the stopping this train will be doing it will average about 39 MPH. So yes this train will have the same average speed as a Vespa! So a drive to Cincinnati from Columbus takes 1.5 hours, yet you can jump on a train for $20 and get relatively close to where you want to be in 3 hours.
So needless to say the idoits who run my state got their barrels of pork. For the price of $400 million we will get a train that:
1. Won’t get ridden
2. Wastes $400 Million
3. Goes about as fast as a senior citizen in the slow lane.
Moral of the story: I think buying 2 Million Ohioans IPhones would have more utility and a greater economic benefit then this train.

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