This is so FU&$ING STUPID it boggles the mind. I work 3 days a week in the central valley. I-5 and Hwy 99 work just fine. There is 20+% unemployment and nothing worth taking a train to. Who is going to ride? What job are they commuting to? How much does this cost? And who is getting paid for the environmental study....that is who needs to be taken out first.....figuratively of course.
Ask New Mexico how well their rail works.
Bill Richardson spent several hundred million of taxpayer money acquiring a line from Belen thru Albuquerque to Bernalillo -- then building a new track into Santa Fe.
Then, to great fanfare, they started regular passenger train service on the line. Over it's first year, operating expenses amounted to $24 million.
Fare receipts: A tad over $3 million.
That's right. For every dollar of revenue, there were $8 in expenses. The taxpayers, of course, have to pony up the remaining $7.
Great idea, huh? Only government can dream up schemes like this. Especially Democrat governments.
I’m down here in Modesto and I can’t think of one possible reason why I wouldn’t drive 99 or I-5 to get to Fresno, Bakersfield or north to Sacramento.
Even with Amtrak you’ve gotta transfer to a bus to get to some locations like over the Grapevine or into San Francisco.
Nope, I’ll just drive my Rendezvous and watch out for CHIPS.