You must not spend any time in the city, there are plenty of great places to live in the city. Columbus is the largest city in the US without some sort of rail transportation. Of course you can't compare it to NYC or Chicago, that's just ignorant and a bad way to back up your argument of why we don't and shouldn't have rail. Cleveland has a nice little rail that seems to work pretty well.
If you really want to try to compare Columbus to large cities like Chicago we can. You can take a train from the Chicago suburbs an hour away from the city into the city. It's not that hard of a thing to do (build rails this way).
I can't believe we are giving away that $400mil we had. It's just going to go to another state now to make that state more attractive for people to live and therefore business to do business. That fucking asshole Governor we are going to have wanted to put that tax payer money it into the private sector (commercial rail ways).
It's all about viable means of alternative transportation. We aren't going to live without cars, but if I could ride my bike, take a train, or walk I definitely would some of the time.
More towards the OP, or where that conversation was going. Yes, I want some sort of diesel!
Jones, did you do the diesel Q7?