Hearings tout high-speed rail (click here)
Gary Heinlein / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
LANSING -- Backers of a proposed elevated rail line between Lansing, Ann Arbor and Detroit will try to sell the public on an Earth-friendly plan to send hydrogen-powered trains hurtling along stainless steel rails.
Four freshman lawmakers plan hearings beginning next month in the state's capital to sell the $2 billion privately funded plan.
"The devil will be in the details, of course," said Rep. Mike Huckleberry, D-Greenville, one of the lawmakers backing the plan. "But this concept has enough potential to make it worth pursuing. I'm hoping that we can develop this technology and transportation idea into Michigan jobs."...
It is difficult to 'agree' with the current budget until one realizes the extent this will add jobs due to vast infrastructure changes. The tax base alone will support a far larger budget that will fund these changes in the USA. Video (click here) I believe President Obama has been extremely productive in his early days for the purpose of painting a complete picture to the USA's people. No one can pass judgement until all is realized in the vastness of the definition of 'change.' You know, it is time the USA 'grow up' and stop seeking 'personal creature comforts (A Republican Agenda.)
Today, Governors Schwarzenegger, Rendell and Bloomberg spoke outside the White House after meeting with President Obama. They outlined an aggressive approach to 'growing' the nation's infrastructure by adding 'State of the Art' infrastructure to energy and transportation.
Citing the huge and current infrastructure changes made in allied nations such as those in Europe, and including private enterprise to particiate, the Governors were more than optimistic in embarking on a Brave New World that would insure generations of Americans that they would indeed have a country that lives within the limits of Earth's Troposphere.
Some states are already 'on board' and planning for the future while awaiting sufficient funding to begin.
High-Speed Rail Line Proposed for Michigan (click here)
A company called Worldwide Hydrogen Super Highways is proposing to build a rail line in Michigan that would run from Detroit to Lansing. The elevated line would run along some of Detroit's major freeways and its cars would use solar energy to power hydrogen batteries...
...But his most liberal allies are asserting the opposite, saying they show the need for the sweeping change that Obama's $3.6 trillion blueprint represents. (click here)...
A super high-speed transport system (click here) with a non-adhesive drive system that is independent of wheel-and-rail frictional forces has been a long-standing dream of railway engineers. Maglev, a combination of superconducting magnets and linear motor technology, realizes super high-speed running, safety, reliability, low environmental impact and minimum maintenance.
By ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday.
The new Congressional Budget Office figures offered a far more dire outlook for Obama's budget than the new administration predicted just last month - a deficit $2.3 trillion worse. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable....
The new Congressional Budget Office figures offered a far more dire outlook for Obama's budget than the new administration predicted just last month - a deficit $2.3 trillion worse. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable....
