Posted on 02/16/2009 10:00:43 AM PST by AuntB
I wouldn’t take it if they picked me up at my front door.
Anything less than 500 miles I wouldn’t even consider taking a plane and under no condition a bus or train.
IIRC there is a private firm working on just such a train route. Harry’s move cuts them off at the knees.
” Don’t know how we’ll pay for it........but it would be very cool.”
Just like all public transportation, the riders wouldn’t pay the daily help amd energy cost to run it.
A ticket on the HR Super Xpress will proabably be more expensive than a plane ticket.
It sounds as useless as T*ts on a bull.
Besides, the Messiah has made it a mortal sin to go to Vegas!
You don’t understand. Harry Reid has extensive real estate holdings right on the proposed right-of-way of this new mag-lev high-speed line. Or at least the route would be steered through that land holding.
Times are HARD. Got to get it any way you can.
“It’s hard out there for a Pimp......”
High speed rail from LA to Las Vegas? Of course! Gotta make it easy for those gamblers to get to Harry’s state, dontcha know.
If it was actually a great idea, some private firm would have built it already.
I see. Thanks.
I was speaking for myself...obviously.
I believe I did read something about it somewhere, sometime.
Bald face lairs.
Here is an LA Times article from 2006, who is that guy to to LEFT of Reid in the picture ???
Ugh!
Something I came across a while ago during the campaign... Some Freeper wrote this, I thought it was pretty good:
They’re On A Road to Nowhere (‘We’re On A Road To Nowhere’ by Talking Heads)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXsuAey-NE
Well, he told us he’s “chosen”… But he don’t know it’s the end…
And we know what they’re token’… gets ejected from the scene.
And Barak’s little children… can sing “hope” what they want.
Man, the future is Palin… Give her time to knock ‘em out…
Yeaaah
They’re on a road to nowhere… Come on our side.
Sarah is miles out front here… She’ll break their stride.
I’m thinkin’ old Biden’s mornin’… ‘Cause he know,
we’re on the road to a landslide… Palin, Go! She will show…
Ahh-hah…
They’re on a ride to nowhere… Come on our side.
Palin is miles out front here… She’ll break their stride.
Hey there, Boy Wonder: Where you are? I don’t care…
She is so primed n’ on our side… Make you fear… Listen here:
Hah! Hey!
You’re on a road to nowhere… Hey! Hah!
You’re on a road to nowhere… Hah! Hah!
She’s so pretty with a mind… Got her long legs, so divine!
And she’s all right, Barry, its all right…
And she’s married n’ not strayed… Got kids growing day by day,
and she’s all RIGHT, Barry, she’s all RIGHT!
Would you like to come along, Barry? ‘N help John sing her song?
It’s all right, Barry, she can fight!
She’s appealing, and so fine. Just a mom who blows your mind!
And she’s all RIGHT! Barry, it’s her night!
And you’re very far away, but she’s growing day by day!
And you’re outta sight, Barry, outta sight!
Would you like to come along, Barry? ‘N help John sing her song?
It’s ALL RIGHT, Barry, she’s all RIGHT!
Dems can tell you what to do, but she’ll make a fool of you!
And she’s won the fight! Barry, it’s our delight!
You’re on a road to nowhere… Hey!
You’re on a road to nowhere… Whaaah!
You’re on a road to nowhere… Aye, Aye!
You’re on a road to nowhere.
Looks like a Mudboy Slim song!
Reading around the internet, it seems that this is a $37 billion project, they estimated it would generate $500 million in profit, if built immediately by 2015.
Assuming half of those profits were funneled back to the taxpayers (250 million annually); which is a big assumption, it would only take 148 years to pay for itself.
Maglevs are cool and all, but this is a dead-end tunnel to nowhere but debt.
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