Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Californication of Colorado

The Dems, being firmly in control here, are irrevocable committed to the concept that California leads the way and everything they do in the Land Of Fruits and Nuts is part of our future as surely as an oncoming train.

Yup, the state having reached the point that another billion will be needed to keep all the feel-good projects afloat and additional administrative people hired, it is now proposed that we need a High Speed Rail line running from Pueblo to Fort Collins.

3 stops are proposed plus the ends so Pueblo, Colo Spgs, Denver, then either Boulder or Ft Morgan, and on the Ft. Collins. The obvious route would be out east in the farm country, but that would mean having to drive way out east to get on. Running up and down I-25 would take care of most of those problems, but there's this problem of where exactly are you going to put the tracks?

Following the existing freight line would work up to a point, but when you get into town, speeds will be about 35 mph..

Maybe we can buy the studies for the L.A. to S.F line that looks to be going nowhere except broke from California.


2 comments:

jed said...

It's stuff like that which leads to stuff like this.

I'm in favor. Except I'd sort of turn it around, and have Larimer, Boulder, Broomfield, and Denver Counties split off into their own lefty state.

Billll said...

Yes, I saw that. I've wondered about the practicality of reinventing the city-state in places where one large metropolitan area is driving government over the remainder of the state.