$53 Billion for High Speed Rail?

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Agreed. I remember going downtown at Christmas, to see Mr Jingaling, window displays, and slide the slide on 'The Christmas Story'. Seems like a different planet now.

Of course, there were already many very bad neighborhoods in those days too.

Busing killed what was left of the good neighborhoods. Anyone who can gets out of there for their kids sake.

A few weeks ago the Plain Dealer ran a story - 'what if Pittsburgh and Cleveland joined into a single municipality?' I thought, yeah, right lol.

Pete

Why on Earth would Pittsburgh want that? It's been ranked the country's most livable city twice recently and is a very nice city indeed.

You might laugh, Pete, but I took my family to Cleveland for a long 3-4 day weekend a couple of years back and we had a very nice time. We liked the art museum, an Indians game at the Jake, the R&R Hall of Fame, Cedar Point, and Canton's football HOF. Other than the R&R HOF and the Jake, downtown is a bit uninspiring, however.