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High-speed rail gets a four-year delay
Politico ^
| May 18, 2016
| MICHAEL GRUNWALD
Posted on 05/18/2016 11:45:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: roadcat
To: roadcat
To: Paladin2
Build stuff to win WW II in four years...The enormity and scale of the WWII infrastructure is one of the greatest achievements in world history. Hard to imagine how we could that today.
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posted on
05/18/2016 12:52:59 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: FatherofFive
What a comnplete criminal waste of money by LIB idiots and their crony-capitalist buddies.
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posted on
05/18/2016 12:56:57 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: mad_as_he$$
How long did it take to build the freedom tower in NY?
It disgusted me to see how long it took to fill in that hole at ground zero.
To: Paladin2
Still looking up the history of Friden Calculators which I used a few times back in the day to backup and extend the accuracy of the ‘rule.
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:03:23 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: FatherofFive
We can’t even carpet bomb ISIS concentrations using 50’s era bombers....
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:04:57 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: dangus
Do the bullet train and hyperloop involve traveling over the ground at incredibly high speeds across major fault zones?
On the plus side, if you’re traveling in the train/hyperloop when the temblor hits, it’ll be over quick!
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:05:38 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: Paladin2
We cant even carpet bomb ISIS concentrations using 50s era bombers....Dresden. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Our current leadership would have lost WWII. We would all be speaking German or Japanese.
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:09:16 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: Paladin2
Yeah, Hoover Dam, Empire State Building, Build stuff to win WW II in four years...Done by people who loved America!
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:24:35 PM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: Lockbox
Apparently the large majority of the Citizens of The Day....
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:26:49 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: faithhopecharity
Maybe they should connect from BART to the LA subway system.
Not going all the way into either SF or LA should make for a lower cost system.
To: Buckeye McFrog
We built the transcontinental railroad in 18 months.
Of course, there are quite a few china men buried along the way...
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:32:55 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: reaganaut1
That’s about $2,000/Californian.
A family of four Californians would be out $8,000.
To: reaganaut1
"State and federal officials downplayed the shift in the timetable, saying it partly reflected more ambitious plans for the Central Valley work, and in any case merely ratified construction realities on the ground. Jeff Morales, CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, said his agency is accelerating its pace after a painfully slow start, with a half dozen construction crews now building overpasses, relocating utilities, and demolishing structures from north of Fresno down to the Bakersfield area. Early on, there was a vision, but no clear sense of how to implement that vision, Morales said. We have that now, and were moving ahead aggressively.
What political speak! A delay because of more ambitious plans? Scope creep already? Ratified conditions on the ground? Oh, they finally drove through there and looked around? Doesn't anyone have a brain these days?
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:37:52 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: reaganaut1
This is a joke, a charade. It should not nor ever will be built and Moonbeam should rot in prison for the corruption he has wrought.
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:41:09 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: EagleUSA
Trump should take the fed money from Mexifornia and use it to build the wall. Anything left, use it to get rid of the delta dart fish and let the water start flowing again.
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posted on
05/18/2016 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
To: reaganaut1
Paragraph 3:
I think running a "high-speed rail through the Democrat-controlled assembly" is an excellent idea.
Democrat not Democratic, of course.
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posted on
05/18/2016 2:08:44 PM PDT
by
goldbux
(When you're odd the odds are with you.)
To: EagleUSA
This project was turned down by Florida Gov. Scott. Obie's response was that it would be turning a profit in as little as two years. What an a$$.
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posted on
05/18/2016 2:15:24 PM PDT
by
goodtomato
(I'm really, really blessed!)
To: Brian Griffin
an interesting and possibly good idea, does have some advantages.... but... also...
1. Bart and LA trains have very serious problems right now (especially Bart, which is as close to complete breakdown as is possible while still operating) and
2. SF and LA political power brokers are very strong in Democratic (California) big project deal-making and super-sized graft matters... and they might not like it unless the bullet trains “serve” SF and LA
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posted on
05/18/2016 2:18:20 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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