[Nfbf-l] FW: A note from Sen. Nelson about jobsandhigh-speedrail

[Kirk]

Jodie, I would have to politely disagree with your assessment of the United 
States and Europe. In the United States we have many regions that  are 
extremely tight  , such as the Northeast, in which the States, as well as 
the cities in these States are close. In Florida, we have areas  that are 
also extremely tight as well. If you consider Miami to West Palm Beach, it 
has  become nothing but one big city with all the interconnecting  cities in 
between! Our West coast has been growing so fast that it too, will be as 
tight as our East coast is at the present time! So, if we are to consider 
this HSR project with the state of  Florida's future growth in mind and 
realize that our State  has been  constantly growing since as far back that 
I can remember, which is 56 years, one would have to realize that we need to 
look into HSR rather than to keep pouring more and  more  concrete into 
expanding  existing highways, engineering , blueprinting, and implementing 
more new highways across our great State! If we  consider our constant 
growth, and realize that is a constant in our lives, then one would have to 
come to the conclusion that we must move into the 21st century with HSR! The 
way we are going now by constant highway expansion not only takes away from 
our States beauty, but is not  considering  that it  cannot continue to 
operate like this as our population growth will not allow it to continue! 
The one certain in this state  is it's population growth! It will not stop, 
so once this is understood by our citizens, we would have no choice than to 
consider other alternatives such HSR, and other concepts that will stop the 
thousands  of new vehicle registrations that our DDL is forced to process 
everyday. If we keep thinking as we have been by our continued growth to 
accommodate all these vehicles out their it will eventually destroy the very 
state that  we all love and retire to. We truly do need to come up with an 
alternative to this mad concept of a constant flow of concrete in our 
State's highways and develop a program such as this that will not only 
create jobs for the construction of this HSR, but gi ve many of our 
unemployed an opportunity to get permanent employment after the project  has 
been developed and functioning! I ask you to please consider this as our 
State is not solving  it's problems at this time with it's old fashioned 
belief that  if we pour enough concrete in our fields that we will be able 
to accommodate our vehicle problems! It won't because we aren't standing 
still with our population growth! I politely have to ask you to consider 
this and let's move into the 21st century! Your friend in the cause, Kirk



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] FW: A note from Sen. Nelson about 
jobsandhigh-speedrail


I don't think it is practical to compare European rail to the US because
European cities are more dense and they are very close together.  In the US
the population is more spread out and the distances are much greater then in
Europe.

JODY


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