….Who would want to take the train from Salisbury to Asheville?

The state Department of Transportation is aiming high, with a new list of requests for $4 billion in federal economic recovery funds to create fast and frequent train service between Charlotte and Washington, D.C.

….Most of North Carolina’s request, $3.1 billion, would upgrade existing rail service and restore train traffic to the abandoned CSX corridor from Raleigh through Norlina and Petersburg, Va., to Richmond.

The state also seeks $6 million for engineering work on proposed new service in Eastern North Carolina — linking Raleigh to Wilmington by way of Fayetteville and Goldsboro — and between Asheville and Salisbury in Western North Carolina.

The Obama adminstration keeps barreling ahead with this stuff, with little thought to the long-term consequences.

As for a Raleigh to Wilmington route, I just made the drive down Interstate 40. It was just too easy.