Bill For the Planning a Financing of Mag/Lev Reaserch

[ilikeverin]

We midwest governmental officials would like it if you spurred to Belle Fourche, SD

[ilikeverin]

I do not see a SINGLE STOP in the Midwest in that bill.

[ilikeverin]

I do not see a SINGLE STOP in the Midwest in that bill.

Milwaukee? Chicago?

Are they not in the Midwest?

No, they are not in the Midwest.

Jake: But the Twin Cities, Duluth, Rochester (perhaps for a spur... the Mayo Clinic is here), Denver, Albuquerque, Des Moines...

As a resident of the Midwest, I am outraged that such prominant residents of Atlasia such as Senator Supersoulty and Jake cannot name the states of the Midwest.

[ilikeverin]

Horrible, horrible, horrible:

Northeast-9
South-1
Mideast-8
Midwest-1
West-10

[ilikeverin]

I do not see a SINGLE STOP in the Midwest in that bill.

Milwaukee? Chicago?

Are they not in the Midwest?

No, they are not in the Midwest.

Jake: But the Twin Cities, Duluth, Rochester (perhaps for a spur... the Mayo Clinic is here), Denver, Albuquerque, Des Moines...

As a resident of the Midwest, I am outraged that such prominant residents of Atlasia such as Senator Supersoulty and Jake cannot name the states of the Midwest.

ILV, notice I didn't include Hartford, Long Island, Newark, Trenton, Richmond, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, St. Louis, or Pittsburgh, all of which would be more profitable then EVERY city that you named.

In the bill, the possibility was left open for more spurs to be built.  Right now, it isn't economically profitable to build them.  All you want, Mr. Governor, is your slice of the pork.  Instead of developing the best system for Atlasia, you want us to repeat the disaster of AMTRAK with new technology.

Also, Supersoulty, you might want to add a clause saying additional spurs can be added, when economically profitable.

Well, sir, if you were really looking for profitability, you could include at least one stop in Texas!

I don't know what your motive is, but I question it.

[ilikeverin]

Horrible, horrible, horrible:

Northeast-9
South-1
Mideast-8
Midwest-1
West-10

ILV, ask yourself where the most business travelers are going to be traveling from.  The east & west coasts have the profitable markets for these lines.  You don't build a massive sports stadium in boise and you don't construct a fast train line in the Rockies.  It just doesn't happen.

1) I see nothing connecting the coasts.
2) You do build a massive sports stadium in Denver, and it is profitable!
3) Of course a train line in the Rockies is profitable; just ask the people who built the transcontinental railway!

[ilikeverin]

NE: 5.444(4444...) people/stop
SE: 22 people/stop (1 stop!  and that's just for New Englanders who want Disney vacations)
ME: 2.875 people/stop
MW: 15 people/stop (1 stop)
W: 2.2 people/stop

[ilikeverin]

Are you voting on the initial bill?

[ilikeverin]

Oh.  That one.