Illinois Gets $808 Million Train Business Walker Destroyed Here

[hue]

http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2013/03/illinois-gets-808-million-train.html

Friday, March 22, 2013


When Scott Walker and his legislative supplicants killed high-speed train development and expansion for Wisconsin in 2011, they also broke a contract to build train equipment for several states at a developing Milwaukee factory in the economically-depressed 30th. St. corridor.

All to satisfy a Walker campaign promise to block the federally-funded Madison-to-Milwaukee high-speed rail construction plan which Walker said would cost the state $10 million annually (horrors! - - when governors routinely budget billions to build and millions to repair, maintain and plow highways) - - but which state officials said would cost the state as little as $750,000 annually.

Today Illinois is celebrating the news that $808 million in new trains will be built there for delivery to five states - - at a plant in Rochelle, IL that is about 25 miles south of Beloit:

Locomotives capable of exceeding the 110-mph speed limit on the passenger rail corridor between Chicago and St. Louis will be bought for Illinois and four other states under a process the Illinois Department of Transportation will lead, officials said Thursday.

The Federal Railroad Administration selected IDOT to manage the multistate procurement of at least 35 next-generation locomotives for high-speed rail corridors in Illinois, California, Michigan, Missouri and Washington state, Gov. Pat Quinn said.

More lost jobs for Wisconsin, where Walker's 250,000 new jobs promise is failing in part because he killed rail construction, manufacturing, R&D and repair employment in our state.

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[msongs]

1. he was majority elected and majority not recalled. its what wisconsin voted for. oh well nt

[HereSince1628]

3. So, we shouldn't do anything to spread information to beat him on his re-election?

WTF??

[reteachinwi]

2. Roads and cars are more profitable for the hydrocarbon industry

than railroads. Keep those windmills away as well. Do they burn coal or gas? Bye bye Wisconsin. I once liked it there.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Don't worry about Illinois getting the business. The Illlinois politicans will do their best to

ship the jobs to Canada.

[midnight]

5. Sound like they are running a loop on us...