Monday, June 30, 2008

Excuse Me Sir, Is That The Chatteringhead Choo-Choo?

From the venerable James Rowen:
You hear it on talk radio all the time: No one will ride the train, blah blah blah.

Except...Amtrak is setting records between Milwaukee and Chicago.

Now imagine for a moment that you could ride the light rail from Brookfield or UW-M or King Drive, transfer at the InterModal station downtown, and continue on to Chicago via Amtrak, or south on the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter line?

Oh...I forgot...that wouldn't work here, because no one will ride the train.

3 comments:

  1. Or better...

    Imagine that you could ride the Freeway Flyer bus from Brookfield, Mequon, Hales Corners, to downtown, and then take Amtrak to Chicago.

    Oh--gee!! That already EXISTS!!

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  2. So the obvious solution: Spend $800 million more!!!

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  3. Imagine a metro area where morons aren't throwing body blocks in front of innovative ideas.

    Right now that metro area would not be Milwaukee.

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