à grande trop échouer
do they NEED 15 new trains? Or is this just useless government spending to keep jobs?
Ain’t Cronyism grand?
You’ll be seeing it here shortly.
Alas, where is Willie Green?
If a fictional character can roll over in her grave, I guess here is where we would make that comment about Dagny Taggart.
In America, we build bridges to nowhere. In France...well at least a year from now they’ll sell the trains for scrap.
The French government has confirmed that it will order 15 high-speed TGV trains in a bid to prevent the historic Alstom train-building plant from closing.
Who is John Galt??
I thought GE bought Alstom ?
Maybe just their US operation
Maybe they can sell them to California to carry no passengers from nowhere to nowhere in the Central Valley.
This seems familiar somehow.
Think how much money California could save if they could just convince people to pretend that there are pretty trains running at high speed across the countryside. Nobody would miss them, since nobody would ride them if they existed.
“They say free InterRail tickets – typically month-long passes letting young people travel across Europe’s rail network at will – could rekindle enthusiasm for the European Union and bring youngsters together to counter the rising nationalism seen in Britain’s vote to quit the bloc and in many other countries.
“People all around Europe must get to know and learn to cherish each other. Our wish is that as many youngsters as possible ... get to know other countries and make new friends,” said Manfred Weber, an ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel who leads the biggest group in the EU legislature.”
For sale: new train sets. Owner built them but doesn’t need them...Contract France