That’s My Senator …. (tear)
Posted by Andy on December 12th, 2007
One has to wonder if anyone ever got anywhere before their was taxpayer subsidized mass transit, based on what Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D MN) said after $160 odd million of Federal taxpayer money was handed over (plus State and local taxpayers are picking up the other half) for a commuter rail project that goes roughly half way to St. Cloud.
Moments after Thomas Barrett, the U.S. deputy secretary of transportation, signed an agreement Tuesday committing $156.8 million in federal funding toward the $320 million Northstar line, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said what others have hoped for a decade:
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,” she said from Washington in a taped message that was played to an audience that included Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Congressman Keith Ellison, state legislators, and officials from the three counties involved, Anoka, Hennepin and Sherburne.
As I said, it doesn’t go to St. Cloud.
(graphic: Strib)
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: But it doesn’t go to St. Cloud.
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: But it doesn’t go all the way there Senator.
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: But…
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: We could easily drive there by car.
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: Are you saying you plan to secure funding to extend the line all the way to St. Cloud?
“I want it to go to St. Cloud,”
BC: Sheesh, you’re worse than my wife. Let’s go now before they laugh.
Big Lake, is only half way to St. Cloud Senator Klobuchar!
In other words, count on spending another $350 million for a train when there is a perfectly collapsed bridge to replace.
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