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California: By the way, that bullet train isn’t actually going to be as fast as we said it would be
Hot Air ^ | March 28, 2014 | Erika Johnsen

Posted on 03/28/2014 9:18:01 PM PDT by george76

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To: george76

Boy, no one saw this coming.


21 posted on 03/28/2014 10:42:17 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: george76

In fact, its not even a train.

Its a panelled van stuffed with Mexicans.


22 posted on 03/28/2014 11:21:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: george76

One way plane ticket from Los Angeles to San Francisco $69
Flight time: 1/hr 25/mins

Train ticket $100,000,000,000 <- Carl Sagan billions & billions


23 posted on 03/28/2014 11:23:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
Here's a money saving idea that I think most Californians would go for:

We give the union leaders 1 million dollars each, and no train will be built. And we'll even forget the idea came up.

Deal?

24 posted on 03/28/2014 11:34:51 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Always good for a lol


25 posted on 03/28/2014 11:35:17 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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26 posted on 03/28/2014 11:36:40 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: george76
Got to hand it to Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown: a superduper high speed bullet train that runs from nowhere to noplace. A train that's slower than anticipated!

Who'd have thought all the billions of dollars spent (and programmed to be spent) and the Donkeys still can't get 19th century technology to work?

27 posted on 03/29/2014 2:07:10 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: george76
Is it any wonder that railroads played a major part in Atlas Shrugs?
28 posted on 03/29/2014 2:12:50 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: ThomasThomas

Pelosi: “We have to pass this bill to see how fast this train really goes”.


29 posted on 03/29/2014 3:15:57 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: USNBandit
I'd love to see the liberals pitch that fence as an ironclad deterrent while telling us no border fence will ever work.
30 posted on 03/29/2014 3:19:36 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: george76

High speed rail is like solar energy a scam to send money to state to fund and pay off other people or programs.


31 posted on 03/29/2014 4:06:24 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
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To: george76

Probably for the best - who wants to be going high speed, on rails, in an area known for so many earthquakes?


32 posted on 03/29/2014 5:27:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: george76

Can someone do the math for me? What’s a 3hr10min trip between LA and SF, in terms of average mph?


33 posted on 03/29/2014 5:31:15 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: george76

If you like your train speed, you can keep your train speed.


34 posted on 03/29/2014 6:03:40 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 1rudeboy
What’s a 3hr10min trip between LA and SF, in terms of average mph?

It depends.

If you start from L.A. and go NORTH, it's 380 miles in 190 min, that's 2 miles/min or 120 MPH.

If you start from L.A. and go SOUTH, it's 25000 miles in 190 min, that's 131 miles/min, or about 8000 MPH.

35 posted on 03/29/2014 6:08:05 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: george76

It won’t be as fast, but it will be three times more expensive.


36 posted on 03/29/2014 6:11:46 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The Willie Green memorial train ping. :’)

Thanks george76.


37 posted on 03/29/2014 6:13:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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Of course, the best part about this will be the precedent-setting strike by the drivers and crewmembers who haven’t even been hired yet but want better working conditions, pay, and benefits.


38 posted on 03/29/2014 6:14:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: george76

The only way the bullet train could work is if the tracks went out of California.


39 posted on 03/29/2014 7:16:56 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SunkenCiv

The MoonBeam eXpre$$ courtesy of aRnolD SchwarzenKennedy

hurtling illegals from the border to the valley fields..

at the speed of a semi- loaded with melons and pot.

a unholy symbiotic relationship that foots the bill

out of the pocketbooks of folk that will never ride it.

a black hole right here in California?

Yes, Virginia, they do exist.


40 posted on 03/29/2014 9:17:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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