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View Poll Results: Do you support building of passenger rail in Ohio?
YES! Not only would I support this, but i would ride it! 95 71.97%
Yes. But I would never ride it. 3 2.27%
It doesn't affect me or any one I know. 12 9.09%
No. Blah. Terrible idea! 22 16.67%
Voters: 132. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-19-2010, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Blue Ash, Ohio (Cincinnati)
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There probably wasn't enough, if any at all, kick backs from the contractors to the new Governor, so that's why he put the kibosh's to it You know how politicians are, "if they don't make a killing off of it, then know one will benefit from it".
Pretty much. The days of making decisions that benefit the public are long gone...
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Old 11-23-2010, 10:17 AM
 
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Food for thought. . . . .Found this interesting ODOT chart showing I-71 traffic counts between Columbus and Cleveland. The point of lowest average volume occurs somewhere in Morrow county (where you have to assume everyone is just passing through ), and there it's 40,600 vehicles per day. Assume 1,600 of those vehicles are commercial, and you have 39,000 passenger cars. Assume one person per vehicle.

How big is this train again?
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Old 12-09-2010, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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It's official today. The $400 million will be reallocated to another state. We dropped the ball and get zero dollars for anything. Sure would have liked to have the train though... Oh well, maybe next decade...

Feds to Ohio: Your high-speed rail project is officially dead (and New York thanks you) | cleveland.com
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Old 12-09-2010, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Blue Ash, Ohio (Cincinnati)
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Ok, taking bets here, how long do you give it before Ohio completely dies?????
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Old 12-09-2010, 08:58 PM
 
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2012
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Old 12-09-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Toledo, OH
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Ok, taking bets here, how long do you give it before Ohio completely dies?????


Im dying right now.



GOOD JOB SLOW-hio!
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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I really don't understand the politics of this, and now the worse case scenario has occured: no free federal money in Ohio for anything. Not only did he promise not to build the train, but couldn't convince the federal Government to let us use it for something else transportation (Don't get me wrong, I wanted the train so badly for Ohio. ODOT spends $100 Billion every two years on it's budget, and the worst case scenario of $17 million a year to run this train would have been a drop in the bucket). $400 million is Federal money is a lot to lose for a state hurting like Ohio.

Kasich hasn't even been sworn into the office yet, and I already sincerely hate the man.
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:40 PM
 
Location: Blue Ash, Ohio (Cincinnati)
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All I can say is we better have the best, smoothest, modern, most spectacular looking roads in the country. Seriously, this guy needs to redeem himself somehow. If we are going to lag behind the times, we better just upgrade our roads.
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:52 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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^ and I wanna know his plans for the replacing the construction, maintainence, and development jobs he just handed away.
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Old 12-10-2010, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Blue Ash, Ohio (Cincinnati)
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I wanna know his plans on a lot of things. This guy is too one-sided, and doesn't have a lot of facts nor talk about anything he wants to do. It seems to be happening all behind the curtains. I continue to call this guy a radical because he is one. The day after election up until know proves that. He was able to kill a huge project that was really going to move Ohio forward. He says he is going to be more business friendly and bring companies to Ohio. The way this guy works though, it looks like Ohio is going to enter the dark ages instead of moving forward. This is not the guy I want to lead Ohio out of the recession.

He is going to privatize development, and have his buddies on Wall Street run Ohio. This state is really going to hit a bunch of rough patches for the next four years. It is truly not going to be pretty, and like a lot of the young people and folks on UrbanOhio; I might get my ticket out of here in the next year or two depending on how bad it will get. It is not a question of if it will get bad, but when....
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