{"id":16676,"date":"2019-10-10T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:36:43","slug":"wisconsin-public-radio-podcast-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wisconsin-public-radio-podcast-derailed\/","title":{"rendered":"All aboard for WPR’s new podcast Derailed<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not think I would be this into a podcast about trains.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Public Radio has released the first episode of Derailed<\/em><\/a>. A limited-run podcast series, it will examine failed plans to bring high-speed rail travel to the state. Madison and Milwaukee would have connected to Chicago (and maybe eventually other cities) at speeds up to 110 mph<\/a>, but the Destroyer of Nice Things Scott Walker torpedoed it<\/a> shortly after his 2010 gubernatorial election win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that when people remember this story, they remember the ending,\u201d co-host and WPR reporter Bridgit Bowden recently told<\/a> The Cap Times<\/em>. \u201cBut going all the way back to the beginning has been really interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowden says the train is still a contentious topic for many in Wisconsin. For every person who wanted it, there\u2019s another who saw it as a \u201cboondoggle\u201d we couldn\u2019t afford. (Never mind that President Obama more or less handed us $810 million to build it \u2014 federal money that wasn\u2019t saved but spent by other states<\/a> instead. But I digress.)<\/span>\n

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first episode<\/a>, Bowden and co-host Shawn Johnson paint the gregarious ex-guv as being fascinated by the subject ever since he was a boy in Elroy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and my buddies would hop onto the trains and freight trains and ride them to the edge of town,\u201d Thompson, now 77, says in Derailed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thompson first proposed the rail line in 1999, and pushed for it hard<\/em>. At the time he was also Amtrak\u2019s chairman of the board \u2014 which seems like a glaring conflict of interest in retrospect \u2014 and was in the process of securing funding for the project. Given Thompson\u2019s reputed doggedness, it seemed all but certain.<\/span>\n

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He had envisioned Dane County Regional Airport as a hub for both land and air travel. In 2000, during the State of the State address, Gov. Thompson displayed concept art that reimagined it as a combination train station. (\u201cNo more lengthy layovers,\u201d he said. Yeah, sure buddy.)<\/p>\n

But later that year, future war criminal\/friend of Ellen\u2019s<\/a> George W. Bush appointed Thompson to a Cabinet position, ending his time in Madison and delaying plans to revolutionize Wisconsin\u2019s transportation. And that\u2019s where \u201cTommy\u2019s Train\u201d ends: a doomed idea in limbo, eventually killed by a craven goober<\/a>\/podcaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were a handful of attempts to revive the high-speed rail project before its undoing. In the coming weeks, Derailed<\/em> seeks to fill in the details surrounding them and how politics have changed overall. New episodes will drop each Wednesday on all major podcast platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not think I would be this into a podcast about trains. Wisconsin Public Radio has released the first episode of Derailed. 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