National Geographic Best Of The World Must-See Places for 2012 (Pittsburgh: price, bills)

[Cville70]

Great full page ad supplement placed by VisitPittsburgh.Com in yesterday's Washington Post Travel Section referencing Pittsburgh's transformation and highlighting National Geographic's inclusion of Pittsburgh in Must-See Places for 2012.

For those of us from away, presents Pittsburgh as a great place to visit.

[BrianTH]

Interesting leveraging of the National Geographic ranking.

Of course if we had a high-speed train from DC, a bunch of them would be visiting here all the time.

[Cville70]

Made a visit a few years ago, but the ad suggests either there are a number of new attractions or ones that have been spruced up. No mention of high-speed rail, but does let me know that I could bike to Pittsburgh via the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail.

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

Interesting leveraging of the National Geographic ranking.

Of course if we had a high-speed train from DC, a bunch of them would be visiting here all the time.

There's actually a lot to do in DC and if not, NYC by Acela is more appealing, so I don't see Pittsburgh as a get-away. So the only hope is a Chicago destination and that might be better by plane.

[tread102]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

Interesting leveraging of the National Geographic ranking.

Of course if we had a high-speed train from DC, a bunch of them would be visiting here all the time.

Yeah because of all the problems this country has, this is what we need to spend money on.

[BrianTH]

Efficient transportation is good for economies in the long run, and it happens that right now we can borrow capital funds ridiculously cheap, and we have a lot of excess productive capacity . . . so yes, actually, now is the perfect time to be making such investments.

[gg]

Originally Posted by tread102

Yeah because of all the problems this country has, this is what we need to spend money on.

True. Why spend money on infrastructure when you can spend money to rebuild other countries and of course our favorite, WAR!

Interesting how people feel infrastructure is so meaningless. It isn't. It is a very important part of our economy. Believe it or not, it is good to spend money on the US and not elsewhere.

[KingKrab]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

True. Why spend money on infrastructure when you can spend money to rebuild other countries and of course our favorite, WAR!

Interesting how people feel infrastructure is so meaningless. It isn't. It is a very important part of our economy. Believe it or not, it is good to spend money on the US and not elsewhere.

I use to work with an idiot that would always babble about the cost of high speed rail and would try to indicate the price it terms of dollars bills stretched around the country. But the moron was for the Iraq war and was never intelligent enough to place his comparison with the cost of that Iraq war.

[escilade18]

Originally Posted by KingKrab

I use to work with an idiot that would always babble about the cost of high speed rail and would try to indicate the price it terms of dollars bills stretched around the country. But the moron was for the Iraq war and was never intelligent enough to place his comparison with the cost of that Iraq war.

but wait, why build anything good for the U.S the way we did in the past for Germany and Japan and the way we are now for Iraq and Mexico. That is crazy

[SammyKhalifa]

Originally Posted by tread102

Yeah because of all the problems this country has, this is what we need to spend money on.

Imagine the country today if Eisenhower thought this way about transportation.