Why So Much For A Rail Study? - And Response (2)

  • Wednesday, September 17, 2014

From the things that make you go hmm department. Ok, so the feds are giving us $400k and the city is kicking in another $300k for a total of $700k to do a study on having in town rail service. Why so much for a study?

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally down with Chattanooga having some passenger trains running around. I get that. It's awesome. We've needed it for a long time. I can't wait.  

What I don't get is how you can possibly spend seven hundred freaking thousand on a "study" about it. I would be very curious as to what persons, entities or businesses will get a piece of the 700 and in what exact amounts for what exact service.  

I can't be the only person who questions this. All aboard and please refrain from flushing the toilet while the train is in the station.  

Andy B. Jones 

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Andy Jones asks several important questions. In the aftermath of an odd library spending audit, a disclosure of abysmal mismanagement concerning the Bessie Smith Hall , and the tit for tat between the city and EPB for the odd million or so dollars, should the citizens of Chattanooga and Hamilton County be so naïve to believe that another very large sum of money won't be flushed down the old proverbial rat hole.  

And, somewhere in the not-so-distant past, what on earth did happen with the Multicultural Chamber of Commerce, the $574,000 in vanishing funds, and the investigations into the same?  

Andy, mind the gap.

Hutch Smith
Signal Mountain

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To quote our only financially responsible School Board member.

“We are Grant Whores.”

Chuck Davis




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