CascadiaCalling
NotMackinVilleKeep on dropping those drips into a massive $100 billion budget bucket and pretty soon you will be talking about real money:
The dream of high-speed passenger rail connecting Vancouver to cities in the Pacific Northwest inched a little closer on Thursday, with the announcement of millions of dollars in new U.S. government funding.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration announced $US49.7 million for planning on a proposed Cascadia High-Speed Rail project. Washington state has kicked in a further US$5.6 million...
And then there is British Columbia's micro-drippage:
Since discussions began in 2018 on proposed high-speed rail service through Cascadia corridor, B.C. has provided $900,000 in development funding to explore this connection between Portland and Vancouver...
Now.
While they do play a half-dozen or so big time college football games a year there, why the heckfire would anyone want to lay out an additional ten or twenty billion to push the line all the way south to Eugene anyway?
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Speaking of trains and tracks and all that...Meanwhile, very sadly, in Stanley Park...
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Speaking of trains and tracks and all that...Meanwhile, very sadly, in Stanley Park...
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