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Ohio passenger rail service - "The Ohio Rail Development Commission wants to hear your thoughts about its proposed 860 mile, 32-station rail system that eventually would link the state’s major cities with up to eight daily round-trip trains traveling 110 miles per hour. But it first requires substantial political support in Ohio. That’s why the Commission and the Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers need you at the first of a series of public meetings around the state. Please join us Tuesday, Nov. 16 – 4 to 6 p.m. at TMACOG (the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments) to make your voice heard on this important plan."

"The system would give Ohio travelers and businesses an option to crowded highways and expensive airways. It would help cities and towns – and the state economy. It would bring new transportation jobs in passenger rail, and to freight railroads."

"The plan calls for mostly federal money to construct the system’s main lines (one linking Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati and another linking Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit)."
posted by jr to technology at 12:26 P.M. EST     (1 Comment)

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While high-speed rail service in the state of Ohio would be nice, the state of Ohio has no business running a railroad. Socialized anything only works well when it is applied to infrastructure. The state could provide the infrastructure by building the tracks and then allowing private railroad companies the use of the tracks provided they follow the rules and pay a weight distance tax.
posted by Guest at 07:51 A.M. EST on Mon Nov 15, 2004     #

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