Sen. Obama hit a sweet spot with me this past week:
"Gas prices: Obama still gets it"
(Greater Greater Washington.org)
At a lunch with a Beech Grove, Indiana couple (one of whom works for Amtrak, the other in a local hospital), the candidate had this to say: The irony is with the gas prices what they are, we should be expanding rail service. One of the things I have been talking about for awhile is high speed rail connecting all of these Midwest cities—Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis. They are not that far away from each other. Because of how big of a hassle airlines are now, there are a lot of people if they had the choice, it takes you just about as much time if you had high speed rail to go the airport, park, take your shoes off.
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The feds. lack of recognizing the benefits of mass transit in some applications continues to puzzle me. To me, connecting relatively close major cities with high speed passenger rail is a no-brainer - - what are we waiting for? I guess I continue to expect too much (anything, really) from the Bush administration.
A big day in D.C. today for the Dems...
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