President Obama: we here in Kentucky will take the money turned down by Florida and Ohio! We need to make some green technology steps to offset our role in the proliferation of coal and it's many detrimental effects on our ecology.
Read more about the debate on high speed rail here:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2011-02-15-businesstravel15_ST_N.htm
Do we need high speed rail? Do we even ask if we need high speed Internet? Of course we need High-speed Rail! History clearly shows that during our economic downturns investments in infrastructure later paid great dividends when things picked up. Then not only will we get a moderate recovery - but we could have a boom economy once business and citizen consumers latch onto the ease, economy, ecology and joy of rail travel!
Imagine being able to catch a train from downtown Lexington to Cincinnati or Louisville and being able to read, listen to music, chat with fellow travelers or just snooze for the length of the trip?! UK has the hones to be a top twenty research institution (an unfunded economic development plain foisted on UK! Having this type of transportation infrastructure will be a great boon to this goal as many folks who are used to East Coast commuter rails are the target audience for helping us achieve those academic/economic goals!
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