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re: NO to Mobile Amtrak service approved by Mobile City Council
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:29 am to UAinSOUTHAL
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:29 am to UAinSOUTHAL
Except it’s not the maritime museum because that’s a museum. Improving the rail lines around the port is vital infrastructure for a growing port. Paying a total of 3 million from the city to get 72 million to improve the rail system seems like a good deal to me.
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Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:29 am to Gaston
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Some people are afraid the criminals from NOLa will ride over to BSL for a day of robbing…then ride back home all pockets full. I think that’s dumb AF.
That's pretty crazy.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:31 am to Gaston
quote:really? The criminals could do that now with the greyhound bus or a borrowed car.
Some people are afraid the criminals from NOLa will ride over to BSL for a day of robbing…then ride back home all pockets full. I think that’s dumb AF.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:33 am to Reservoir dawg
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I could see riding from BSL or Gulfport to New Orleans and vice versa as an alternative to driving and parking in New Orleans.
We live on the coast and have Saints season tickets. We’re keeping an eye on it as an option to get to and from games if they ever make it convenient enough.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:47 am to jmcwhrter
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I'd love to send my kids to grandma's and my wife and I ride a cabin train car from New Orleans to Jacksonville.... but it sounds like these morons want to terminate in Mobile for some dumbass reason
There is a not a direct rail line over Mobile Bay that parallels I-10. The train would have to go North and come back down somewhere around Dothan.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:59 am to cyarrr
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I don’t know if it made money, but they have data that can give them idea of whether it will be profitable, break even or a money pit.
It’s not a one to one comparison, but how much money does that stretch of the I-10 make directly each year?
Obviously, infrastructure hardly ever, if ever, makes a direct profit.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:02 am to ProjectP2294
What is the predicted racial makeup of that train?
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:04 am to udtiger
Will it take 8 hours to get there?
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:22 am to Geauxld Finger
This is gonna be like the bullet train from Dallas to Houston
Gonna take 2 hours and I’ll have to drive to downtown Dallas, pay for parking, get there an hour early and then be on a train for 2 hours, wait for luggage, then find a rental or Uber.
Meanwhile I could drive my own car and it take 4 hours.
Gonna take 2 hours and I’ll have to drive to downtown Dallas, pay for parking, get there an hour early and then be on a train for 2 hours, wait for luggage, then find a rental or Uber.
Meanwhile I could drive my own car and it take 4 hours.
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 9:23 am
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:12 am to udtiger
Curious for the council's reasoning to make it a terminus. Seems through traffic would be profitable.
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:14 am to udtiger
ticket cost?
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:13 am to Optimism
I guess the question on everyone’s mind is
What happens once you get to mobile?
What happens once you get to mobile?
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:31 am to udtiger
Pending the next big storm to destroy the lines again.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:35 am to SlidellCajun
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This is a positive economic move
It’ll likely spur more links to travel to other spots along the gulf coast
Actually it will probably be poorly planned, barely used, and still completely subsidized by taxpayers.
Then it will be announced as discontinued within 5 years and you won't even notice it until you think about it, on a whim. Then you'll google it and be like "hm. No shite?"
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:36 am to Play_Neck
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Curious for the council's reasoning to make it a terminus. Seems through traffic would be profitable.
My guess is lingering PTSD from the massive disaster back in the 90s after a barge took out a bridge.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 10:39 am to Jimbeaux
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It’s not a one to one comparison, but how much money does that stretch of the I-10 make directly each year?
Obviously, infrastructure hardly ever, if ever, makes a direct profit.
Tax dollars are finite. I want my government(s) to use them to do the basics well and then if some is left over they should either reduce taxes or use those taxes to improve the quality of life.
I don’t see how a passenger line from BR to NO or from NO to Mobile meets those goals. I believe the rail lines will require more and more tax dollars to keep them running; thus r as king dollars that could be returned to me as a tax cut or used for better projects.
Posted on 8/8/24 at 11:15 am to udtiger
I enjoy train travel, but this is an atrociouis plan. There are no connecting routes in Mobile. They need to open up the original New Orleans to Florida train where you can get a connection with the North-South corridor.
The Florida trains that run from Florida to DC/NYC are the way to go if you don't need to speed of Acela once you get to DC.
The Florida trains that run from Florida to DC/NYC are the way to go if you don't need to speed of Acela once you get to DC.
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