Quote Originally Posted by hybridy View Post
2 high-speed train sets built for Wisconsin set to leave Milwaukee
courtsey of tea bagger fav governor scott walker
The article is wrong on a couple of points. Gov. Doyle's Spanish trains were not for Chicago. The were to go back and forth between Madison and Milwaukee. It was a thoroughly stupid boondoggle because buses presently operate between Milwaukee and Madison more frequently, with more stops, and for less cost than subsidized train passengers assuming the rosy passenger projections claimed by Gov. Doyle. Gov. Doyle did get a few nice vacations to Spain though.

Gov. Walker did not even kill this plan. Gov. Doyle assumed that Gov. Elect Walker would kill the train so Doyle gave the federal money back to the government which immediately sent it to California.Walker had instead wanted to ask the federal government to reassign that money to make improvements on the much more trafficked Milwaukee-Chicago part of the line.

This sounds like a reasonable idea to sell these trains to Michigan. If Michigan, or anyone would order more trains, perhaps Gov. Doyle's train adventure will actually make sense.

While I'm at it, Gov. Doyle's other achievements included new taxes on hospital and nursing home stays.