As Florida goes into a deep freeze, at the other end of the coast, Maine is on fire.
In Florida we eliminated the High Speed Rail Plan, good idea because it sucked... But now the new Governor is holding Sunrail hostage until he gets his way, or he's going to do the Ted Bundy on the Orlando Metropolitan Area, STUPID IDEA, because this system will actually help Orlando's horrid traffic mess and a delay will jack the price through the roof. We all know that within 4 years, our obese, underdeveloped, tone deaf children will be using slates and chalk to do their "cyphering," provided they too can walk 30 miles, barefoot through sand spurs to school, transportation? Baby if it ain't a freeway Jacksonville? Tampa? Ft. Lauderdale? "Sunset Limited?" (*note) Scott has told us wish in one hand and spit in the other and tell me which one filled up first? We're so screwed, even good ideas are falling victim to Scott-Bundy's knife. Meanwhile Maine, doing EXACTLY the thing Florida should have been doing while wasting time and money on a nowhere to nothing HSR plan, is sailing above and beyond us... read it and weep.(http://inlinethumb41.webshots.com/47976/2214043430104969885S600x600Q85.jpg)
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I realize some Yahoo will post that Florida has a rail plan too and they mean NOTHING... Well, Florida has had a bunch of them and thus far about all they have done is catalog abandonment's and curtailment of services or chasing pie-in-the-sky insanity. Maine has one that they are actually working on. (*note)
The Sunset route is a badly needed RE-addition to the Amtrak System, one which Floridian's already paid many millions for simply will not work on the schedule or the ridiculous routing they gave it by turning south of the logical terminus in Jacksonville. Running through the dead of night in the Florida panhandle gave westerners traveling coast to coast priority over Florida and Gulf Coast residents. No wonder Amtrak doesn't want to restore the train - the FDOT/AMTRAK creativity department is only months out of the Triassic period. OCKLAWAHA
None of this is shocking in any fashion. Whether people liked HSR or not, it wouldn't have cost the state a dime, while every other rail related project would. Don't expect Scott to like or support any style of passenger rail.
I can vouch for the joys of riding the Downeaster to Portland, Maine. I happened to be on a two-week rail pass that took me from Jacksonville to Kansas City to Portland. I visited with friends up in Bath. They picked me up at the Portland station.
As for the Sunset Limited, I totally agree with Ock. Of the five states with the highest population, Florida seems to be woefully negligent when it comes to cultivating decent rail. The Sunset Limited should have reopened by now - especially with Tallahassee being on the route. Think of the nice alternative to having to take I-10 (IMHO the most boring highway) to Tallahassee and Pensacola. Passenger rail is really FUBAR in Florida.
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For 300K this could be your Maine home away from home... steps from the tracks.
http://www.trulia.com/property/photos/1080975738-39-Pascal-Ave-Rockport-ME-04856
I love a Mansard roof! <3
I have been eyeballing this little honey for some time.
Just wishing I suppose, but a couple months ago the asking price was 399K. Now it's 295.
Maybe a couple more months it'll be in range.
Quote from: Jaxson on April 02, 2011, 10:32:21 PM
I love a Mansard roof! <3
Mansard; the roof design that a tax policy created.
kind of Addams Family-esque....
Quote from: Dog Walker on April 03, 2011, 11:20:57 AM
Quote from: Jaxson on April 02, 2011, 10:32:21 PM
I love a Mansard roof! <3
Mansard; the roof design that a tax policy created.
Indeed.
Not to mention a very practical roof.
The French government used to tax a house based on the number of stories it had. The Mansard roof was a way of adding another story without having to pay the additional tax on it.
Canny Frenchmen!
If Im not mistaken , that style of roof is very wind-resistant.. I love the style of home that it is . Very nice !