tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222325649627666682.post4819225532770987705..comments2023-10-26T09:01:50.545-04:00Comments on Miss Vero's Beach House: IRC COMMUNITY LEADERS SUMMITMiss Verohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13946839524699613036noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222325649627666682.post-79888711912639647292008-12-20T17:24:00.000-05:002008-12-20T17:24:00.000-05:00High speed rail, alas, will never happen in this a...High speed rail, alas, will never happen in this area because of all the street crossings. Bad enough that the plodding freights keep wiping out idiots who try to sneak through closing crossing gates or stall on the tracks. You would not wish to risk this happening with a high-speed passenger train.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222325649627666682.post-74080092334857168232008-12-20T13:56:00.000-05:002008-12-20T13:56:00.000-05:00Let me cast another vote for the train and investi...Let me cast another vote for the train and investing a wee bit in the downtown area. It seems like such a great idea for our area and for Florida, that its incomprehensible to me that it just sits there on the drawing board year after year. Maybe we can trade some offshore drilling (on the gulf side of course :-)) for high-speed rail in our lifetime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222325649627666682.post-52277765442154873232008-12-18T20:47:00.000-05:002008-12-18T20:47:00.000-05:00Interesting news! I hope they aren't going to wait...Interesting news! I hope they aren't going to wait ten years to get on the modern and green bandwagon. Because if they're stuck on the old ways of job creation they have another thing coming to them- and it isn't jobs.<BR/>The train is a great idea. It would open up a lot of possibilities for day trips. The old steam engines are pretty popular out west for slow scenic trips but I could see high speed rail working for us.<BR/><BR/>And I'd like to see the infrastructure for trains rebuilt across the whole country. Did you know if you want to take the train from Florida to New Mexico, you have to go all the way to DC, then to Chicago and down to New Mexico? There are a couple of other just as inane routes too but they all take 4 days as well. You may as well take the car. <BR/><BR/>I won't mention his name because he brings out wrath in those with liberal phobias but one guy said the Big 3 should "build only cars that are not primarily dependent on oil and, more importantly to build trains, buses, subways and light rail (a corresponding public works project across the country will build the rail lines and tracks). This will not only save jobs, but create millions of new ones." <BR/><BR/>If our economy gets going again, energy prices will rise again. And it will put us right back where we started. Our answer lies in green jobs in a green economy.<BR/><BR/>Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute explains how jobs are already being created and where more are needed here:<BR/>http://www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2008/Update80.htm<BR/><BR/>Besides the money that Obama is talking about, there's already $125 million slated for the creation of green jobs. I don't think any has been handed out yet, unfortunately I lost track of what's holding it up.LDouglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03460073063880619647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222325649627666682.post-5920505401153646222008-12-18T16:21:00.000-05:002008-12-18T16:21:00.000-05:00I was thinking I'd post something to Miss Vero's b...I was thinking I'd post something to Miss Vero's blog pretty soon, but I want to take the time to make it good. I don't want to rush it. I want to create a thoughtful post about the sort of things her readers are into - namely, plastics and libations. Of course, some of her readers are into other related polymers, but I can't be everything to everybody. I have to focus on one thing at a time.<BR/>Perhaps I should hire Mr Fruth to develop a plan for my future posting. I do love a good graph.Countess du Roselandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433870288672242675noreply@blogger.com