North Carolina planning more improvements for passenger service

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North Carolina planning more improvements for passenger service

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Wow! All this in North Carolina. Who woulda thunked it? Definitely puts “blue” state Massachusetts to shame. For sure NC is is “redder” politically, giving credence to the theory advanced by some that enthusiasm, apathy, to downright hostility to passenger rail transcends party lines and ideologies.

Here in the Bay State, locked in the vise-like grip of the Democratic Party, they do as little as possible for transit east of Worcester/Fitchburg and the idea of linking the counties west of the Connecticut River to Boston with credible intercity rail leaves them cold. They completed the MassPike in 1958 and it’s been the be all and end all ever since.

But they want windmills on all the western ridgelines to save the environment.

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Wow! All this in North Carolina. Who woulda thunked it? Definitely puts “blue” state Massachusetts to shame. For sure NC is is “redder” politically, giving credence to the theory advanced by some that enthusiasm, apathy, to downright hostility to passenger rail transcends party lines and ideologies.

Here in the Bay State, locked in the vise-like grip of the Democratic Party, they do as little as possible for transit east of Worcester/Fitchburg and the idea of linking the counties west of the Connecticut River to Boston with credible intercity rail leaves them cold. They completed the MassPike in 1958 and it’s been the be all and end all ever since.

But they want windmills on all the western ridgelines to save the environment.

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One of reddest states sees the value of passenger trains. Jeffery Guse : Take notice!

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I’m surprised not to see either a rebuild or relocation of Charlotte. Unless something has been done in the last couple of years it was very dingy and not very close to downtown (at least for a railroad station)

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Good on ya’, Tarheel State! That last paragraph about on-train and station volunteers makes me wish I lived along the routes of those trains.

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Great to hear such great progress being made. We have tentatively blocked out 2018 for our Washington DC - NC Coast - Cass trip, so we’ll probably be able to make use of some of these improvements!

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Here in Texas we are adding more lanes of traffic. We already have the vehicles, we just need to pour more concrete faster to put them on. Anybody need a governor with great hair?

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Here in Texas we are adding more lanes of traffic. We already have the vehicles, we just need to pour more concrete faster to put them on. Anybody need a governor with great hair?

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Here in Texas we are adding more lanes of traffic. We already have the vehicles, we just need to pour more concrete faster to put them on. Anybody need a governor with great hair?

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Here in Texas we are adding more lanes of traffic. We already have the vehicles, we just need to pour more concrete faster to put them on. Anybody need a governor with great hair?

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It’s always great to hear about passanger trains being added and improvements being made to rail service. I’m just wondering what negative and pessimistic comments Guse will come up with.

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$129 million to dig a grade separation sounds incredibly steep. Is that what they’re going for these days?