tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post2714772364513054529..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Fight vs. new rural WI freight rail echoes urban highway battlesJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-86991019723147251522016-03-20T17:48:14.588-05:002016-03-20T17:48:14.588-05:00This is going to benefit Wisconsin Southern -- Sco...This is going to benefit Wisconsin Southern -- Scott Walker's cash cow (everyone remembers the first conviction in Walkergate, right? Felon Billy Gardner.<br /><br />Not the railroad is tied to Koch interests. They are far-and-away the biggest customer of global transportation holding company WATCO. Since it, like Koch Industries, is also privately owned; it isn't actually possible to see direct and/or indirect ownership. But, since Koch does an overwhelming about of business with WATCO, the actually can control WATCO.<br /><br />Scott Walker has been dumping virtually all of Wisconsin's state and federal railroad funds into his BFF Wisconsin Southern. This began to exponentially increase the frack-sand business on the line:<br /><br />WATCO/WSOR Frac Sand Pay-to-Play<br />http://voicesnewspaper.blogspot.com/2012/12/watcowsor-frac-sand-pay-to-play.html<br /><br />And<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNE7HXtOlWc<br /><br />So now they are going to be a hub to funnel freight around Chicago and its all going to go through Milton, Janesville, Clinton via Madison and/or Milwaukee?<br /><br />Figures -- my best best it this goes through and you can bet that the Great Lakes Basin Transportation, Inc. is not going to operate independently from Wisconsin Southern. There is a much bigger part of the story here that is being withheld from the public.<br /><br />People need to attend these meetings and ask how enough freight traffic is going to come through Milton Wisconsin to make this feasible.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-3827859865869287742016-03-20T17:14:05.170-05:002016-03-20T17:14:05.170-05:00I remember when the US DOT Sec. and WisDOT also sa...I remember when the US DOT Sec. and WisDOT also said the Milwaukee-Madison Amtrak expansion was going through.James Rowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-66332441409789654942016-03-20T16:53:18.924-05:002016-03-20T16:53:18.924-05:00So, a managing partner of the company says the pro...So, a managing partner of the company says the project's going through, it's just a matter of tidying up the details. <br />This is a multi-state thing, so is it Feds? Does the State have any say in this? Fun that this is going through Paul Ryan country. <br />It appears that the hearings are actually being held in the area instead of hundreds of miles away. What were they thinking? People might actually be able to come.Suenoreply@blogger.com