[RC2]

When considering high speed rail, has anyone looked at the number of accidents with regular trains and what would happen if an accident occured at speeds of 100mph? How may people would say could survive a wreck like that.

[oh8eleven]

We get the same $hit here in NY .......... "by Rep. Louise Slaughter - New York's path to a renewed economy is high-speed rail."
WTF? These scumbags are sooooo out of touch with reality it's scary.

[NormsRevenge]

a classic ‘ high-speed ‘ rail job

when will voters learn?

[RingerSIX]

I voted against this bottomless crap-hole of an idea, but did they listen to me? NooOOoooOOOo. At least with aircraft, the Satan worshiping goat humpers only have a good shot at it during take off and landing.

[jpl]

That’s today’s liberals: winning the future with 19th century technology.

[spokeshave]

the Economist, a highbrow British magazine

Make that a high LEFT eyebrow British Magazine

[Buckeye McFrog]

When you can fly on Southwest for sixty nine bucks from Oakland to L.A.......WHY??

[spokeshave]

Man...that sucks.....seems we have to bus the miscreants to Bakersfield before having the luxury of riding them out of town on a rail......tar and feathers optional.

[Arrowhead1952]

High-speed train trip going nowhere, and Willie Green is again deeply saddened.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Forget about it!....

[cruise_missile]

High speed trains produce high speed train unions.

[Disambiguator]

Road to Nowhere

[Always Independent]

Those who govern in CA are truly idiots. The problem is not in need for HS rail but the need for more available mass trasportation. If the Redline was still running to all of its original points in the LA basin, the railcars would be continuously overflowing with riders and probably profitable. But nooooo, the want to travel fast and underground. I can only imagine what LA might look like today if they allowed Walt Disney to build the monorail system he offered them for free.

[Pontiac]

Why would you build a hi-speed rail system in a state that is waiting for the Big One? Picture a train traveling very, very fast when the ground suddenly heaves beneath the rails.

Even if the Big One is not a worry to you the tracks are still going to cross fault lines that move some number of inches per year that has to be a concern to a train traveling over 100 miles per hour.

[colorado tanker]

New Mexico’s rail link between Santa Fe and Albuquerque is bankrupting the state and soaking up all their transportation dollars. And that is not a high speed system and is much less ambitious.

[Elsie]

It is the disaster-in-waiting known as the high-speed rail project.

I guess they did NOT learn their lesson with BART!

http://www.bart.gov/about/history/index.aspx

[the anti-liberal]