{"id":2896,"date":"2023-05-17T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:10:11","slug":"more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"More Rail in Wisconsin Could\u2026 Could Attract 250,000 New Passesngers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/17\/more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/17\/more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/05\/17\/wisconsin-projects-passenger-rail-expansion-could-draw-250k-new-riders\/70223095007\/\">But at what cost?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">MADISON \u2013 State transportation officials who want to expand Amtrak rail to Wisconsin\u2019s population centers of Madison, Green Bay, Waukesha County and other communities project the move could attract about 250,000 new passengers to the trains within a decade and an additional 1.6 million by 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The state Department of Transportation this week\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-BUg4PxsH_eBVrSDp0MERjpAcWiYoFkr\/view\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">released a long-term plan for Wisconsin\u2019s rail lines<\/a>\u00a0that includes the department\u2019s vision for rail service in Wisconsin over the next three decades, including proposals to extend passenger rail to 11 new communities in Wisconsin that would connect the state\u2019s capital and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first assumption that they don\u2019t even bother to explain is that increasing rail passengers is a good thing. Is it? At best, it\u2019s neutral, isn\u2019t it? So some people who might prefer to take a train from Green Bay to Madison can do so instead of driving. So?<\/p>\n<p>And what will that cost? Look at California\u2026 it ain\u2019t cheap. So let\u2019s say it will cost $20 Billion (probably low) to expand the passenger rail service so that someone can take a train from Wausau to Madison in 4 hours instead of driving it in 2. So we should spend $80,000 per ride to build that out?<\/p>\n<p>Can we just accept that we like our cars and want to use our government resources to be used to make the roads better and stop making cars more expensive?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/17\/more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=more-rail-in-wisconsin-could-could-attract-250000-new-passesngers But at what cost? MADISON \u2013 State transportation officials&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}