Talking Upgrade on Milwaukee to Chicago Amtrak…Again…sigh.

There is new talk about upgrading the Amtrak route from Milwaukee to Chicago with new track and infrastructure and more trains…but this could have been accomplished years ago if not of the interference of one Governor Scott Walker. sigh.

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House Republicans cut Amtrak funding the day after fatal Amtrak crash

Well isn’t this something?!?!? House Republicans voted Wednesday to chop about a fifth of Amtrak’s budget, less than a day after a deadly train crash that Democrats pointed to as a prime example of the dangers of shortchanging the nation’s transportation needs. They also rebuffed Democrats’ attempts to provide money…

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If I Only Had a Train!

When Governor Walker killed the almost high speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison, he not only turned down the $800 million for construction, but he killed the jobs that went along with the train building and maintenance facilities here in Milwaukee. And of course the resulting economic development along the…

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When Ideology Trumps Fiscal Common Sense

Scott Walker’s enthrallment to the construction industry (to the tune of more than $1.2 million over the years) has now cost the state millions in federal dollars that would have been available to deliver needed (and mandatory) upgrades to the Hiawatha Line.  Wisconsin is one of the states which contributes…

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