In Korea, the conventional trains are competitive with cars. The KTX trains are much faster.
I think that it is great the Wisconsin already has a couple of rail links, including a train that runs more than once a day. And that is in addition you are getting another train that will also run more than once a day that will actually go a decent speed.
It gives me hope. Here in Colorado we have one train, once a day that goes 20 mph for much of its run.
Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
The Calatrava Addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
Milwaukee River empties into Lake Michigan
Wisconsin wind farm, east of Waupun
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
Skylight illumination in Milwaukee City Hall
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
What water, wetland protection is all about
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
Lake Michigan in winter
Milwaukee skyline
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James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.
2 comments:
Car Speed Rail is a fiction and Jaegler will always find the brightside of every tragedy.
A good man, but willingly ignorant.
As federal money is free, Jaegler sees every bit of bad news as positive.
In Korea, the conventional trains are competitive with cars. The KTX trains are much faster.
I think that it is great the Wisconsin already has a couple of rail links, including a train that runs more than once a day. And that is in addition you are getting another train that will also run more than once a day that will actually go a decent speed.
It gives me hope. Here in Colorado we have one train, once a day that goes 20 mph for much of its run.
(Oh, and federal money is not free.)
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