WV1K: Rails to Trails is just another NIMBY maneuver

Friday, January 14, 2011

Rails to Trails is just another NIMBY maneuver

Rails to Trails are useless wastes for hobbyists to have a free activity to tire out their kids on days off and vacations.

Talk about something that loses money and attracts cheap visits and users who spend no money. Trails have to be cleared, cleaned, maintained and that's just the taxpayer ball and chain after they're built for tens of thousands of dollars a mile.

When a reporter goes after an active railroad's ROW, he needs to get lost. His train "enthusiasm" is extremely suspect since he pronounced not only the swing bridge over the Connecticut dead in early November, but its approach route in Portland and in Middletown . He then went for a working train ride and saw he was wrong. He's now enviro-sniping at another route. What a coincidence.

Says Peter Marteka in the Hartford Courant :

On special excursions, the train now goes as far north as Goodspeed Station in Haddam, near the swing bridge on Route 82. My dream would be to see the steam train extend its service even further north to Middletown. The only thing better than hiking that stretch would be seeing it out the window of a train car.

Once again, another reporter working at another Globalist outlet says one opinion and then advocates another in reality:

Although the tracks remain in place from Haddam to Middletown, they haven't been used in more than 40 years.

Wrong !

So why not create a rails-to-trails project along the abandoned line? The right-of-way is owned by the state Department of Environmental Protection, which leases a 23-mile portion of the rails to the Essex Steam Train.

Did someone in the media just say Department of Environmental Protection yet again ? Seeing the connection now ? Once again that Native American has a tear drop rolling down his cheek, right ?

Here's the facts for once.

The line isn't abandoned. Rail enthusiasts use it to ride their speeders and it's being worked on to extend the trip north.

Why not create a light rail route instead of another useless bike path ? His bike path suggestion is totally contrary to his train "dream".

The fact is that anyone wanting rails to trails is using it to end the use of the rail line forever. The trail is secondary. They just don't like trains and they want them gone wherever possible, squeezed into corridors where they don't have to look at them, hear, smell or feel them.

If he cared about trains he'd advocate for the West Coast use, which is far better. They have light rail cars that the bicycle junkies then carry their bikes on so that when they get off, they can endanger the lives of drivers who have to swerve head-on for their selfish hobby.

Rails to trails are nothing more than a convenient way to sentence a rail ROW to oblivion; reporters are now savvy enough to say they would really like a train but if they can't have a train, then why not destroy the rails.

Huh ?

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This blog is written in the unvarnished truth by an Ottaviano. That's Octavianus, Octavian, Octavius, Octavia, Octavii... some intel nit wit keeps editing the commonly used Wikipedia as Google and Youtube delinks Ottaviano and Octavianus, etc, out of their abject fear of real history. Now they've shoved Cardinal Ottaviani who worked with the OSS and Martin S. Quigley to the back of the searches too. Their goal is to throw off any casual looker seeking to confirm this. It's not the politically correct nonsense of a Globalist publishing house with a post-WWII agenda of anti-Roman, anti-Italian, and anti-Goyim lies.

I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in History from Trinity College and needed only a second thesis or exam to get the B.A. in Political Science or International Relations. I was oddly told that they were "redundant" even though many now get both. I then refused to become a sock puppet like others are, and was maimed on purpose to a near heart transplant, nerve damage, and internal bleeding by a bunch of Globalist government paranoids acting through Merck. Their Germanic and Jewish ancestors rioted against my family in Rome with this purpose, assassinated lawful Emperors and defiled the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome. Stop believing what you were conditioned to think out of post WWII guilt. Nero didn't burn Rome; the fiddle they now say he played wasn't invented until the 16th century, and Nero was assassinated by their ancestors ending our rule. An unlawful coup took hold in 476 and continues unchallenged.

After all of that, on 31 May 2008, my 62 year old father dropped dead in front of me as two fighters hundreds of miles from their base flew over. Connecticut politicians Richard Blumenthal, Joe Courtney and my father's student Susan Bysiewicz held up both the ambulance and AED which should have been 1000 feet away for their own paranoid protection. That left my mother with $62 a month and no pension. You bet it was retaliation by the people who maimed me that I now attack, but hadn't uttered a word about until after that.

I'm also a ham radio operator, but most of the new hams are incompetent un-opinionated fake emergency responder mush mouths since they dropped the IQ test.

Benjamin Disraeli

"There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House ... I mean the secret societies.... It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe--the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries--is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being covered with railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government; they do not want ameliorated institutions ... they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments. Some of them may go further...."

in the House of Commons, July 14, 1856

Nicolo Machiavelli

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John Locke

"but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven."

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