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.
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Watch: Palestine, Ohio Derailment Disaster Compilation Video!
We’ve got a compilation of citizen videos and local media reports from the Palestine, Ohio, derailment and man-caused chemical disaster. It takes you from the beginning (an over-heated axel on one of the rail cars ) to Feb 13th, when it was published.
Note to Holocaust Survivors and Their Families – Canada Rail Puts a Yellow Tag on You before You Board a Train…
File this under what the…heck. In Canada, rail officials are placing a yellow tag on riders as they board trains, adding a bit of irony to the nation’s older title as a Dominion.
CDC Mandates Masks Nationwide on All Public Transporation and Some Private (Rideshare).
The Center for Dystopian Chaos (CDC) has released new rules for the peasants. Ye shall wear a mask (over nose and mouth) on any conveyance or at or in any transportation hub. Air, bus, train, cab, and even rideshare services will be expected to enforce the rules.
Mass Transit – Is Forcing you Into Public Petri-Dishes Another Democrat Idea the Pandemic Should ‘Kill’
Democrats are obsessed with wasting money on public transportation. Commuter rail is the most recent (new/old) cure for what they claim ails you—no, not saving the planet: the freedom and individual empowerment of being able to control your own life and path on your schedule.
You Can Stop the NH Democrat Expansion of the MBTA Money Pit into New Hampshire
The MBTA is an unmitigated disaster. It’s a mess. A money pit. And while it serves, as best as it can, a sprawling metropolis around a major US city (Boston), it’s not anything we’d want in New Hampshire. But that’s what our choo-choo fetishists are after. At any cost.
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 … Read more
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 time I need it, it will already be there.”
It is damn near the biggest waste of time and money we could imagine, destined to become nothing more than a fiscal albatross that bleeds us dry, and yet like some three-year old who relentlessly carpet bombs you in the ten-items-or-less aisle with ear-piercing screams until you relent and buy them that chocolate bar, the mass-transit zombies you thought you’d put down keep getting back up so they can eat your brains.
Commuter rail is as useless in New Hampshire as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest and whose only possible value (and I use that word very loosely) is as the ideological lefts equivalent of a gold-digging trophy wife you can never divorce–that’s more expensive, and paid for by you whether you use it, need it, ever see it, or not
“Psst! Hey Buddy. Want to Buy A Train?”
What he meant was that if we added commuter rail “there would be more spending than we could even contemplate at this point.”
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.
Democrats, Trains And HB 218
The Union Leader has a great editorial in this mornings Sunday News titled "Free Trains." It is great for several reasons the least of which is that it mirrors concerns I have been expressing for years. That no matter who pays to build them, someone has to pay to keep them. That would be New Hampshire Taxpayers. But Democrats are aghast that the NH House would dissolve the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority–the head of a beast seeking to force commuter rail upon us–because hey it doesn’t cost anything.
But it does cost and it could lead to something that costs us even more in the future. A lot more.
December 2009 at NH Insider – I hit it out of the park when someone compared road taxes to rail taxes.
Passenger rail costs are not limited to the root infrastructure itself. That would be rails versus roads. Taxpayers would have to subsidize passenger rail-cars, fuel the cars, maintain the cars, probably pay the workers and their benefits, and support the entire system when it fails to turn a profit, which will be always and probably forever. While roads have some other infrastructure nothing compares to rail.
In contrast people buy their own cars, and pay for their own fuel and maintenance. They may buy the car to get to a job that’s probably not funded by taxpayers either. (Except in Concord) Taxpayers do not need to subsidize any of that where with rail we’re supporting all of it. So there is no possible apples to apples comparison to road and rail taxes.
The state also makes a lot of money on registration fees and fuel taxes for road vehicles, tolls and license plates, and some towns rely so heavily on registration fees that even minor reductions can cause budget issues. Passenger rail offers no comparable net increase in revenues and in all likely hood a net loss. So Passenger rail risks reducing revenues and increasing tax obligations for no significant greater good.
But that’s hardly the most pressing point about the ongoing illusion of free commuter rail…