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WSDOT’s newest, greatest choo-choo train scam

Jan 23, 2018, 12:16 PM | Updated: 2:55 pm

Fresh from an act of arrogant negligence — that lead to the deaths of three people and the brutal injury of hundreds  — failed head of Washington’s anti-transporation agency, Roger Millar and his team of WSDOT social engineers have a brand new idea.

Mere days before the DuPont Amtrak crash in December, WSDOT published a study looking into ultra-high speed rail in Washington. Despite the tragic crash, it is still considering the a proposal to build a choo-choo train route between Seattle and Spokane.

RELATED: What did officials know before the DuPont Amtrak crash

This train would be approximately 600 percent slower than an airplane ride. Yet it would — like the bloated joke of a choo-choo in California — be more expensive than flying. It would make about one trip for every 20 airplane trips. This train would be marginally faster than driving — that is, when it’s not stuck in the rain, like North Sounder Line — and when it’s not broken like the Washington State Ferries.

Call it what it is: a WSDOT scam

This is plainly and simply a scam and WSDOT knows it. It is a payoff to state unions who will supply make-work labor at costs at 35 percent above free market thanks for the prevailing wage law.

It is a payoff to Democrats, who will enjoy another massive, make-work, useless, un-needed bureaucracy where they can place their friends in career, make-work, “executive” jobs. Those friends can provide these same politicians a consistent flow of donations to keep the scam going. This is a WSDOT payoff to the choo-choo industry lobby. That lobby knows all too well that pilotless drones are about to make air travel into an Uber-like experience with a guaranteed cut in prices as companies compete for market share.

This is a scam.

You know what, Washington Democrats? It’s not just WSDOT’s scam you richly deserve. You deserve to have every cent in every one of your accounts swindled from you because you empower this swindle against the rest of us.

Seriously, it’s time for sane Washingtonians to secede from SeaWashington so they can enjoy becoming Detroit.

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