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Feds suspend review of $5.5B loan for Vegas-to-California train
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| July 17, 2013
| Judson Berger
Posted on 07/17/2013 2:41:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:41:22 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Maybe the necessary pockets didn’t get stuffed.
Or maybe a more connected bidder is waiting in the wings.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:42:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Olog-hai
Willie Green is deeply saddened.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:45:21 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Olog-hai
” project would be built with enough American products like U.S-made steel and iron.
”
I wonder what using “enough” will add to the bill.
To: Olog-hai
Man would that be a boondoggle.
Think of how nice the crowd would be at that train station.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:46:21 PM PDT
by
wideawake
To: Olog-hai
I thought LaHood retired a while back.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:47:07 PM PDT
by
CMailBag
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:52:10 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero
Well, that whole “government build trains” thingy does go back to Johnson and the Metroliner. They were promising 160-mph trains between New York and DC by 1969.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:54:40 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Not enough campaign contributions to the usual DemoRat party candidates.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:55:07 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Olog-hai
Really kind of weird that anybody would think it would take $5 Billion to build a high speed train from Victorville to Vegas, distance of a couple of hundred miles at most but would only take $100 million to build a 600 mile line from LA to SF.
Sounds like the payoffs involved are simply humongous!
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:56:40 PM PDT
by
Vesparado
(The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
To: CMailBag
That one threw me too. Anthony Foxx officially replaced LaHood on the 2nd of this month.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:58:36 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: wideawake
Think of how nice the crowd would be at that train station. You could write a book or movie just on the hopes and dreams of the outbound Friday traffic, juxtaposed with the Sunday riders, beat, broke, tired and depressed.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:59:04 PM PDT
by
Slicksadick
(Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
To: Olog-hai; CMailBag
Ah, I get it now. I even posted it; the letter was dated June 28.
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:59:41 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: 1rudeboy; Willie Green
Willie Green is deeply saddened.Name him, ping him.
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:04:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:05:49 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Vesparado
This project was weird from the beginning. The idea was to build a 186-mile railroad that was separated from the general railway network, from Victorville CA to Las Vegas.
Originally, this was all supposed to be done with private money (when it was still called DesertXpress); but only $1.4 billion got raised . . . and I don’t see how and why it couldn’t get built at $7.5 million per mile, since the top speed is supposed to be 150 mph (permissible on the general railway network, with FRA-directed upgrades) and not 186 mph or faster. Asking for an additional $5 billion raises the cost to $34 million per mile, which is way more than enough to build a 200-mph line in my estimation, especially if (as planned) it’s built on the side of the interstate highway.
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:05:59 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
"What's that spell?""MONORAIL!"
To: Vesparado
The idea that this thing was only going to run from Victorville was the amazing thing to me. Hell, at Victorville, you're a third of the way there already, and the rest is the easy, pretty part (if you like desert over suburban sprawl, anyway).
L.A. being pretty much completely surrounded by difficult mountains really screws it when they talk trains. Same thing with this line up the Central Valley. How are they getting through the San Gabriels? Over the Grapevine?
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:07:04 PM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: 1rudeboy
Yes, but pinging him just emphasizes the he got the zot.
More salt?
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:07:27 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Who cares? Millions per job is just the price we must pay. To compete with China. I heard it on FR.
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posted on
07/17/2013 3:09:01 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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