Florida High Speed rail

[nachoman]

About 20 years ago, they started building extensive freeways around here. At the time, the freeways were planned to run in the middle of nowhere, through cotton fields and to places so far out I could not imagine anyone would want to live. Yet, the freeways got built at great expense - and sure enough the land around them was quickly developed. The taxpayer expense of the freeway stimulated growth (the developers were quite pleased). Of course, the new houses were mostly bought by investors who only planned to resell a year later and make a profit - and we all know how that turned out in the end... Of course, the freeway was cheaper per mile than this railroad . And yet they still talk about more freeways and more tax dollars to further out in timbuktu to spark development again . Personally, I would rather encourage people to just live closer to where they work rather than subsidize their transportation costs.