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

[george76]

When California first put the issue of building a high-speed bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco before voters, Gov. Jerry Brown made all sorts of nifty-sounding promises about how efficient, convenient, and fiscally sound a choice the rail line would be for Californians.

All of those promises have more or less turned out to be a sham by now, as the train’s costs have exploded and its deadlines pushed way back, and now it appears that that less-than-three-hour ride Californians were originally promised… well, probably isn’t.

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who really considers a mounting “wall of debt” and a slew of unfunded pension liabilities a crisis?

[andyk]

Boy, no one saw this coming.

[PGR88]

In fact, its not even a train.

Its a panelled van stuffed with Mexicans.

[minnesota_bound]

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

[boop]

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?

[GeronL]

Always good for a lol

[Hoodat]

[MasterGunner01]

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?

[jmcenanly]

Is it any wonder that railroads played a major part in Atlas Shrugs?

[BipolarBob]

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

[Rastus]

I'd love to see the liberals pitch that fence as an ironclad deterrent while telling us no border fence will ever work.

[ronnie raygun]

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

[trebb]

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

[1rudeboy]

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

[Izzy Dunne]

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

[Izzy Dunne]

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.

[Moonman62]

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

[SunkenCiv]

The Willie Green memorial train ping. :’)

Thanks george76.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[Vaduz]

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

[NormsRevenge]

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.