{"id":435,"date":"2006-11-25T00:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T05:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/11\/25\/435\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:19:39","slug":"commuter-rail-for-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/commuter-rail-for-milwaukee\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Rail For Milwaukee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commuter rail between Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha is being discussed again. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it will cost $237 million to start. The plan proposes 14 round trips on weekdays and 7 on weekends and holidays. The fares would be around $10 one way, and buses and shuttles would theoretically take riders from the train stips to jobs and other locations.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics on the proposed rail include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is estimated that there would be 1.43 million rides of the train per year. (That&#8217;s less than 4,000 rides per day.)<\/li>\n<li>Operating costs would be $14.7 million a year<\/li>\n<li>Farres collections are estimated at only $3.8 million per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An awful lot of taxpayer money is potentially going to be spent on a rail line that may not even be needed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who is going to ride this train?<\/li>\n<li>Who decided that we <strong>need<\/strong> this commuter rail?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we want to run a train that can&#8217;t even come <strong>close<\/strong> to covering its costs through ridership?<\/li>\n<li>Is the supposed &#8220;economic development&#8221; near the rail stations going to be <strong>new<\/strong> development that otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have occurred, or is it just a shift in location of development that will probably happen anyway?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuter rail between Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha is being discussed again. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it will cost $237 million to start. The plan proposes 14 round trips on weekdays and 7 on weekends and holidays. The fares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-fraud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-71","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}