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The Trains In Spain …

Mayor Pete’s apparent lock on bureaucratic incompetence regarding transportation might be up for grabs. Two of Spain’s senior transport officials were forced to resign. Isaías Táboas and Isabel Pardo de Vera are out of work after this ‘minor’ error became public.

NH Executive Council Votes To Explore Boondoggle

The Executive Council, by a vote of 4-1, has approved a 3.7 million dollar feasibility study–all three Democrats and sometime Republican Ray Burton voted to approve the expense. “Expanded rail service to Nashua and beyond has the potential to boost New Hampshire’s economy and create jobs. The only way we can understand the full impact …

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The Ideological Left’s Equivalent of a Gold-Digging Trophy-Wife

I’ve been blogging this subject for years because at every opportunity Democrats (and a handful of Republicans) resurrect the notion that running a commuter rail line into and or up through the Nashua-Concord corridor would be good for something. That’s like saying “hey doc just leave the endoscope in my colon, that way the next …

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Death To Rail (Bride Of RTA)

This is what we call the tits-on-a-bull defense. Chris wants rail. There is no good reason for it, he just wants it. And he could care less that we already have infrastructure that works, that is more adaptable, and which costs significantly less to operate.