High-Speed Rail

Slow-Joe Biden, of course, is all for it. His reputation as a moron is well-earned and rock-solid.

High-speed rail is a fast track to government waste

Governing ought to be about making wise choices. What's disheartening about the Obama administration's embrace of high-speed rail is that it ignores history, evidence and logic. The case against it is overwhelming. The case in favor rests on fashionable platitudes. High-speed rail is not an "investment in the future"; it's mostly a waste of money.

Here in New Mexico, we have the Rail Runner between Santa Fe and the southern rim of Albuquerque. It exists as a a monument to former Gov. Bill Richardson's deep belief that economic development means glomming onto every temporary Federal subsidy you can lay hands on. It's a boondoggle of the first order, one the citizens of the state will be paying for in virtual perpetuity. It doesn't even seem to be good for emergency use -- when it got extra snowy and cold a couple of weeks ago, it couldn't run because the tracks shrunk or something.

One of the arguments made for it was that it would save money by taking traffic off of I-25 between the two cities. So, naturally, we are now in the midst of a long, expensive project to add lanes to I-25...

Byron