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February sixteenth, 2011 | 358 Comments
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Just days following the White Residence uncovered its ambitions for the $53 billion, six-year strategy for an American high-speed rail network, the place in which it absolutely was all supposed to start now seems for being outside of the working. Nowadays,Pandora Jewellery, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) announced that he would refuse $2.four billion in federal funds to create a rail line in between Orlando and Tampa. The project’s construction would have required $280 million in state aid for being completed, but projections had indicated that the line would cover its own running fees.
The Obama Administration has funded the challenge more than any other outdoors of California and hoped that the scheme, which would have opened in 2016 as the first line in a nationwide network, would serve as a model to the rest from the country. Numerous non-public corporations — including international conglomerates such as Siemens, Alstom,Pandora Rings Uk, and JR East — have indicated that they would be willing to pick up the state’s tab and cover construction and operations risks,Tiffany Bracelet, in exchange for the correct to operate the trains.
Yet Mr. Scott has moved to squash the challenge nonetheless, acting before those companies were supposed to respond to the state high pace rail authority’s request for proposals. This is a shortsighted transfer that will only benefit others: The federal funding will be redistributed to projects in states such as California and Illinois.
Citing concerns that the project’s costs would spin out of control and that taxpayers would be burdened with operating subsidies, Mr. Scott argued that fiscal prudence gave him no choice. The Governor apparently has no trust in the private companies he claims to laud, failing to give them a chance to demonstrate their interest in the project. He apparently has no interest in offering his citizens the opportunity to pioneer a mode of transportation that has been repeatedly scuttled, in Florida and elsewhere, by the distinctively American ability to ignore the potential benefits of intercity rail.
Indeed,Cheap Pandora Charms jhgjhg, while the Governor’s decision may have been framed in a rhetoric of financial austerity, the hastiness from the announcement and its timing just after the unveiling from the President’s high-speed rail proposal indicates that intercity rail,Tiffany & Co Outlet, more than ever, has turn out to be a tool for partisan disagreement. Republicans all over the country, inspired by the refusal of federal money for rail systems by Governors in Ohio and Wisconsin,Tiffany Engagement Rings Uk, have rallied against practically every such challenge. The Home GOP budget, which would gut the rail system — as well as transit cash projects — is only a continuation of this crusade.
What does this say about the state of American transportation? Is the status quo, during which the vast majority of Americans get around only by car for short to mid-range journeys,Tiffany Necklaces, ramping up congestion and increasing environmental degradation,Tiffany CuffLinks, acceptable? Do we have any interest in developing a future vision for our cities or our society as a whole?
Image above: Florida High-Speed Rail route alignment,Pandora Bracelets Sale, from Florida High-Speed Rail