Comments on: Today’s Tosser: Daily Herald Editorial Board http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/03/11/todays-tosser-daily-herald-editorial-board/ Illinois, From Misery Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SteveBreeze http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/03/11/todays-tosser-daily-herald-editorial-board/comment-page-1/#comment-19108 SteveBreeze Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:21:55 +0000 http://archpundit.com/blog/?p=11525#comment-19108 More importantly why not rail from O’Hare to Milwaukee's Mitchell Field? Short hop flights take a lot of time and fuel. There are tracks just outside of both O’Hare and Mitchell. Why not O’Hare to Rockford and Midway? It could cut a lot of O’Hare flights and save a lot of energy. It might even make some of the O’Hare expansion unnecessary...but then I have answered my own question. More importantly why not rail from O’Hare to Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field? Short hop flights take a lot of time and fuel. There are tracks just outside of both O’Hare and Mitchell. Why not O’Hare to Rockford and Midway?
It could cut a lot of O’Hare flights and save a lot of energy. It might even make some of the O’Hare expansion unnecessary…but then I have answered my own question.

]]> By: Nort'sider http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/03/11/todays-tosser-daily-herald-editorial-board/comment-page-1/#comment-19104 Nort'sider Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://archpundit.com/blog/?p=11525#comment-19104 The Herald is simply whining that more money isn't being spent on suburban roads, and specifically the roads in ITS suburbs, which is just more of the same "Gimme mine and screw everyone else" sectionalism that's hobbled Illinois from the beginning. Incremental improvements toward true high-speed rail will benefit everyone, even the Herald's suburbs. Wherever high-speed rail has been built between cities of the Chicago-St. Louis, or Chicago-Twin Cities distances, it captures the majority of travelers in those corridors from airlines. Which, in this case, Suburbs, would mean fewer flights at O'Hare. The Herald is simply whining that more money isn’t being spent on suburban roads, and specifically the roads in ITS suburbs, which is just more of the same “Gimme mine and screw everyone else” sectionalism that’s hobbled Illinois from the beginning.

Incremental improvements toward true high-speed rail will benefit everyone, even the Herald’s suburbs. Wherever high-speed rail has been built between cities of the Chicago-St. Louis, or Chicago-Twin Cities distances, it captures the majority of travelers in those corridors from airlines. Which, in this case, Suburbs, would mean fewer flights at O’Hare.

]]> By: leo http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/03/11/todays-tosser-daily-herald-editorial-board/comment-page-1/#comment-19102 leo Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:35:59 +0000 http://archpundit.com/blog/?p=11525#comment-19102 The freight traffic coming in the other direction is terrible. That we don't have a decent (and by that I mean, TGV-style) railway is a disgrace. Maybe people would probably worry less about pot-holes if they actually had the option to go by rail. It's about time we started getting serious about being modern and up-to-date. I never knew second-rate and second-class was part of the American Dream -- yet we've got it in transportation, bandwidth and health-care, just to name a few. The freight traffic coming in the other direction is terrible.

That we don’t have a decent (and by that I mean, TGV-style) railway is a disgrace. Maybe people would probably worry less about pot-holes if they actually had the option to go by rail.

It’s about time we started getting serious about being modern and up-to-date. I never knew second-rate and second-class was part of the American Dream — yet we’ve got it in transportation, bandwidth and health-care, just to name a few.

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