Why are the taxpyers getting gouged?
Why?? Didn’t that idiot Obama tell us we shouldn’t go to Vegas?
For you East Coasters, Victorville is a desert town in the middle of nowhere. That’s where the SoCal-to-Vegas turn-around buses stop to let you pee and stretch your legs.
So....Reid’s Great Plan is to scuttle something useful - something the country needs: Yucca Mountain.
And build something no one needs: a gambling train to nowhere.
I guess “We have to build it to see where it will run”
Under three hours form Victorville to Vegas. By the time you get to the station early to clear security, ride the train and take a shuttle or taxi to your hotel, you can drive....and you’d have a car when you get there.
My sister in law just booked a flight from San Diego to las Vegas for $56. Why would anyone go to Victorville and take a train. By the time you get to Victorville you are already half way there. You can get a round trip air ticket for $99 from LA and get you the in 30 minutes. STUPID STUPID STUPID.
My sister in law just booked a flight today from om San Diego to Las Vegas for $56. Why would anyone go to Victorville and take a train. By the time you get to Victorville you are already half way there. You can get a round trip air ticket for $99 from LA and get you the in 30 minutes. STUPID STUPID STUPID.
At least someone is telling the truth out there.
Drive a hundred miles to park, pay $100 to get on a train and ride 200 miles more so you can get there without a car. Yeah that'll work.
Victorville isn’t Hell, but you can see it from there.
Ya, why is the federal government having to give a loan to this company to build this bullet train?
To paraphrase President Obama, he’s going to borrow money from China to loan it to this company.
Another story said this company has some ties to Harry Reid. So this could even be a political payoff.
If the casinos, or other private investors, want to build a bullet train across the desert, fine. Build it with your own money, and see if you get business. But no way should the federal government be giving this loan to build this thing.
No lessons were learned from the Solyndra loan, were there?
Blow billions on this stupid train shit but the Keystone Pipeline which would produce real jobs and energy is killed by president JugEars.
Once they have the money, they can make a big donation to the democrat party. Then file for bankruptcy.
The hangup for LA-Vegas Amtrak Service has always been double-tracking in the desert to avoid huge delays, and speed the service to Vegas.
But, it has been hamstrung since the mid-90’s by some endangered frog, or hamster, or something, that lives in the stretch of desert that would be double-tracked.
It won’t make any money. It makes no economic sense. How much did these company officials and unions pump into Democrat pockets??
This project, and others past, and future are simply tactical manuevers intended to raid the taxpayer funds confiscated by the Fed.
A major project with lots of areas of expense to divert the taxpayer money too. Make it happen so fast eyes, and minds are spinning. The money in motion will disappear down the graft hole, and the end result will be reported as “cost overruns”, and then nothing more will be heard about where the money all went.
Lots of politicians historically come out of D.C. much wealthier than when they arrived, so the game isn’t a new one.
I’d bet on the crap shoot.
For those of us who used to travel I15 between Vegas and SoCal, the creation of this ‘train’ would take away a major form of entertainment: watching the idiots clocking 90MPH+ on a Friday afternoon going to Vegas to lose their money.
Not to mention the sensational highway wrecks.
These guys obviously have never made the Friday drive to Vegas and the "drive of shame" home on Sunday. The worst part of the trip is between Cucamonga or San Bernardino and Victorville. They cannot have enough rail cars to handle the potential peak rider count and the service would be dead the rest of the week. Hook up with Metrolink and we can talk.
At 115,000 people Victorville is not exactly a “small city” as portrayed in the article.
And yes, taxpayers should absolutely not pay for this.
It will be semi-interesting to find out which Obama bundlers are the organizers of this criminal conspiracy and how much of the “gift” from the people they pass along to Obama’s campaign. At this point, I trust zero of what Zero does - it’s all smoke, mirrors, duplicity and BS!