We recently told you about Cornell professor Rick Geddes, who doesn't think "high speed rail" makes economic sense. Now another Cornell faculty member has weighed in on the Obama administration's plan to put your grandchildren in debt for your grandfather's technology.
Nationally prominent blogger Bill Jacobson, who also somehow finds time to teach law at Cornell, has posted performance data on the feds' current passenger rail boondoggle, Amtrak. A sample, from for Amtrak's most heavily traveled route:
Before we spend $53 billion on high-speed rail, can we try to get low-speed rail to run on time?With the Cornell faculty lining up in opposition, we can only hope that Governor Andy Cuomo will realize New York cannot afford to participate in this scam. And we repeat our call for the Jimmy Olsens at the Ithaca Journal to interview Ithaca's most prominent pundit.
No reflection on the Daily Planet - ed.
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