New Report to Outline Benefits of High-Speed Rail
The Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) will release a new report Monday morning in Dearborn that outlines the economic and other benefits of bringing high-speed rail to Michigan and the Midwest.
PIRGIM says critics of adding a high-speed rail are ignoring the cost of inaction and the full range of benefits a new rail system could bring to Michigan and each state in the Midwest in both the short and long term.
The presentation for the new report will take place at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 20 on the platform at the Dearborn Amtrak Station, located behind the Dearborn Police Station
September 20th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Mr. Deep, in order to consider allowing the rail to stop in Dearborn we must have downtown living. This was presented to our city officials by me 7 or 8 years ago. The proposal was to introduce urban infill and at the same time the city to use use the residential density being created to attract the rail stop in west Dearborn. Without the urban living or student housing product I don’t see the rail offering a stop here.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
With as little as there is to be walked to from the proposed stop, I really think that the major purpose of it will be to take people to Ann Arbor or Chicago to shop.
I seems to me the it will take more people out of Dearborn than bringing them in.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I am waiting for someone to prove to me that therre is a rail system in the United States that can operate without a government subsidy. There is not one. Why does anyone keep pushing this stupid idea?
September 21st, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Mr. Fakhoury:
Once again, you taken a topic that has nothing to do with your enterprises and used it as an excuse for your own poor management and inability to adequately plan.
You have consistently blamed the City on the failure of your projects to be fully developed and occupied. Now you come along and say that unless the City complies with your wishes they can kiss goodby to a high-speed rail station. Rubbish.
The decision on a station is going to be based upon the potential for use along with the availability of land. This would be a facility to compete with Metro Airport and I-94 (and its’ bounty of gas stations and fast-food restaurants) for the consumers transportation dollars. It is intended to serve a city of 90,000, not an off-campus housing development of a few hundred. Your proposed pie-in-the-sky-who-can-I-get-to-pay-for-it project is not going to make or break the decision on where to locate a station.
I doubt that anyone is going to buy your attempt to pressure the City into supporting your development plans by weakly linking it to the promise of a rail station.
Why don’t you spend your time trying to get your current properties leased out rather than pitching another of your follies?
September 21st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
“Diogenes” nailed it! It seems like the Mayor just latches on to these big ideas without putting much thought behind it,rail systems are a complete failure and major waste of money.
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Diogenes, you are exactly right. Who are these people waiting to travel by train? The use will never be enough to fund this project.
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:21 pm
JACK & HIS PUPPETS ON THE COUNCIL WILL BE THE FIRST ONES TO TAKE A FREE RIDE ON THIS MAKE BELIEVE RAIL SYSTEM !! MARGE YOU ARE CORRECT IN SAYING THE USE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH TO FUND A PROJECT LIKE THIS,SO THE ADMINISTRATION WILL MEET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, THEN APPROVE FUNDING (THAT THE CITY CLAIM IT DOES NOT HAVE ) TO DO A STUDY, HIRE A FIRM THEN SIT AND WAIT UNTIL TIME RUNS OUT… PEOPLE WAKE UP GO TO THE COUNCIL MEETINGS & DEMAND A STOP TO THIS WASTEFUL SPENDING OF OUR TAX DOLLARS! MAYBE ITS TIME TO RUN THESE PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN ON THEIR OWN RAIL .