Posted on 09/25/2009 11:11:06 PM PDT by South40
Taxed Enough Already.
1.28 billion for SF to San Jose. Amazing waste of money.
High speed rail or any rail is an effort in stupidity!
Here’s a wild suggestion. Bullet train...from LA to Mexico City. We pay for construction on our side...and pay for the construction on the other side (keeping folks folks busy for years and living there in Mexico). Then we offer up the bullet train...free of charge....getting folks quickly to the heart of LA.
They seem to come up with this idea every ten years or so, but it always gets quashed due to environmental issues.
Give it a rest. It will never happen.
I was in France on business earlier this week and I took the French TGV for the first time. The trip was from Paris to the city Caen in the Normandy region. The ride was so uncomfortable that I almost threw up. When the high speed train makes even the slightest turns at very high speed it will just turn the stomach upside down. In fact if someone stands up during these turns it is highly likely that he will fall.
Isn’t there already a train between SF and San Jose? And don’t those trains keep hitting people, no matter what precautions the train takes? Spending all that money on a bullet train that might save, what, 20 minutes on the trip? Oh, yeah, that’s worth the money.
Besides other obvious reasons not to, yes, let’s put these trains along active earthquake routes. REALLY spend the moeny wisely. Shur.
That'a pretty expensive dim sum. Like L.A doesn't have dim sum?
I’ve rode the high speed train from Frankfurt to Brussels and back. I thought it a great ride, one of the smoothest trains I’ve ever been on. I wonder if France uses different technology.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Sane people know you don’t ask your broke uncle for money. But Kalifornia’s leftist-lature is not sane.
I think it is the terrain. If there are not many turns and just a long straight railroad then it should be fine. But going through the French country side with a lot of turns and that is what made it very uncomfortable for me. May be it is just me :)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
I would tend to agree. But the article says Kalifornia hopes to get some of the stimulous money and is making the claim the project would create jobs. It would, but how much would be spent to create each job?
But just think. Only half of it will be for union kickbacks, endless environmental studies, and the DNC coffers. I’m sure Pelosi’s family will have a cut of the action as well. But at least some of the money might end up being used to actually build something.
But just think. Only half of it will be for union kickbacks, endless environmental studies, and the DNC coffers. I’m sure Pelosi’s family will have a cut of the action as well. But at least some of the money might end up being used to actually build something.
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