High-speed rail in Missouri is snapshot of government delusions

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Did you know that the building of a high-speed rail line across central Missouri will support more than 200,000 jobs, or roughly 800 jobs for every mile of track? That is right, more than 200,000 jobs. Don't believe me? Well, it is right there on page 21 of the Missouri Department of Transportation's (MoDOT) application for $600 million in high-speed rail federal funding for the planning and engineering phase of what eventually will be an $8 billion project: "The construction phase is estimated to support over 208,674 direct, indirect, and induced jobs."

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