About That Light Rail Project...

EagleSpeak notes the pie-in-the-sky Triangle Transit Authority's Light Rail project which is projected to cost $630 million dollars and has been revised and revised and revised to the point it will virtually go NOWHERE anyone WANTS to go -- prime example, RDU Airport station has been eliminated from the project. Say WHAAAAT?

He references a May Carolina Journal report about Light Rail in North Carolina, which also looks at Charlotte's proposed system. I can tell you from living in Rock Hill, that one is a boondoggle, too. I may be proven wrong, but I think years from now it will be known as Mayor Pat McCrory's White Elephant. When all is said and done, you're looking at trying to put a prom dress on a sow.

The EagleSpeak post was noted by Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit, among a lengthy list of PORK BARREL PROJECTS the blogosphere is offering up to Congress as items that could be de-funded in order to pay the costs of Katrina rebuilding.

UPDATE (Tuesday 9/20/05 at 11:30am): Thanks to Jon Ham at The Locker Room, the blog of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh for linking to this in his post. Be sure to check out the JLF's main site, and the online version of their outstanding publication, The Carolina Journal, for some illuminating reading.