Comments about ‘High-speed rail gets $8B boost’

Stimulus money will be siphoned off by business owners if we use the private sector to implement these projects. They will pay their workers as little as possible and the money will never go into circulation. The whole point of running a business is to make money, not spend it. Workers on these projects need to be government employees, otherwise greedy business owners will just pocket the money for themselves.

Orlando to Tampa - 84 miles @ 168 mph ~ one-half hour plus the time it tales at either end to get from the train station to your starting-point/destination (15-30 minutes at each end). Only $1.25 billion.

Driving now only takes one and one-half hours. Overall you might save at best a half-hour. That is worth $1.25 billion?

Hilary, can you seriously say, after watching five supervisors watch one guy with a shovel at a road construction site that you're getting your money's worth?

What do you think business owners do with the money they earn so that it never gets into circulation, stuff it in their mattresses?

Remember, businesses put money into the economy, government takes it out (or redistributes it, at best).

Since you're so opposed to private enterprise, learn Spanish and move to Cuba or Venezuela.

Hmm, I think if you spread the cost over all those who take the trip and the number of times they take it, the cost becomes a little less outrageous - not totally worthwhile, but a little less outrageous than what you infer. I'm not completely sold on the trains, but I am open to exploring the possibilities.

What's next? Steamboats on the Mississippi?

when you look at problems in the airports, it does make sense to have high-speed trains. japan and europe are not behind the times on this, they are certainly ahead of us.

hey, get bill gates to fund a section and name it after him!

Yes, unfortunately all of the lines being considered are intrastate and therefore should be paid for by the states themselves.

We would be better off federally funding interstate rail sections for a bullet train to eventually connect key travel hubs like Atlanta, New York, Miami, Dallas, Detroit & LA.