by JohnK
How come it takes YEARS to do studies, consulting, and politicking on EVERYTHING train-related these days?
5 to 10 years to do a rail-trail? They built the entire (Eastern/Boston and Maine) rail line from Boston to Portland, back in the 1840s, by hand, with shovels, pickaxes, hand derricks, mules and horses, etc. in something like two years. Why does it take 10 years, 160 years later, to build a bike path on a rail line on which all of the hard work...surveying, grading, etc. has already been done?
140 years ago the Transcontinental Railroad was built in less time than it will take to make an existing rail line into a bike path from Wakefield to Lynnfield? Huh?? Helllllllooooo???????
5 to 10 years to do a rail-trail? They built the entire (Eastern/Boston and Maine) rail line from Boston to Portland, back in the 1840s, by hand, with shovels, pickaxes, hand derricks, mules and horses, etc. in something like two years. Why does it take 10 years, 160 years later, to build a bike path on a rail line on which all of the hard work...surveying, grading, etc. has already been done?
140 years ago the Transcontinental Railroad was built in less time than it will take to make an existing rail line into a bike path from Wakefield to Lynnfield? Huh?? Helllllllooooo???????