Comments on: House and Senate Agree on $2.5B for High-Speed Rail — And More http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/12/09/house-and-senate-agree-on-2-5b-for-high-speed-rail-and-more/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: saxman http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/12/09/house-and-senate-agree-on-2-5b-for-high-speed-rail-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-96021 saxman Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:44 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=57121#comment-96021 Well its much better than in years past where HSR got....well nothing. To keep everyone happy I actually think $2.5 billion is a good start. You can do a decent amount with that for a year to begin upgrading a couple corridors. Well its much better than in years past where HSR got….well nothing. To keep everyone happy I actually think $2.5 billion is a good start. You can do a decent amount with that for a year to begin upgrading a couple corridors.

]]> By: Brandi http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/12/09/house-and-senate-agree-on-2-5b-for-high-speed-rail-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-95491 Brandi Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:38:23 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=57121#comment-95491 Well the senate is definitely where good ideas go to die. This is very disappointing. $2.5 Billion doesn’t buy much not even the backlog of maintenance on the NEC. If they split it up into more than 2 pieces than it pretty much is nothing. So there isn’t much to go around really. To get $50 Billion to spread around it would therefore take 17 years and $50 Billion doesn’t even quite cover the original requests from the states. Definitely shows a complete lack of commitment. Well the senate is definitely where good ideas go to die. This is very disappointing. $2.5 Billion doesn’t buy much not even the backlog of maintenance on the NEC. If they split it up into more than 2 pieces than it pretty much is nothing. So there isn’t much to go around really. To get $50 Billion to spread around it would therefore take 17 years and $50 Billion doesn’t even quite cover the original requests from the states. Definitely shows a complete lack of commitment.

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