Posted on 05/23/2016 7:17:17 AM PDT by rktman
The “tube” crosses fault lines between LA coast, LA central city, and LA mountain/basins which will break it every 6 months.
Of course, so will the LA-SFO high-speed train. Which will be slower than the planes anyway! AND more expensive.
But it is contracted to Diane Feinsteins’ husband. Unbreakable money! What’s not to like for 69 billion?
(When a complete wall at the border is only 1.1 billion?)
Good assumptions.
1.5 trillion?
We need to spend that sickening amount of money on water for the state. No one will ride that stupid train; it won’t be a high speed train; it won’t go between L.A. And San Francisco; this Browndoggle has to be stopped.
There is really no upper limit, it’s like a kitchen remodel.
The idea is to get some tracks laid so that it’ll be “we can’t not finish it now” after they get 7.5 miles down in Los Banos connecting nothing to nothing.
Don’t celebrate so fast. The state of California has been scheming to move the money from High Speed Rail to the Delta Tunnels Water Project.
They’re still going to blow the money but on a completely different wasteful project.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-fight-suspended-20160326-story.html
“California’s bullet train dodged a major threat Friday as critics delayed a proposed ballot measure that would have taken $8 billion in high-speed rail bonds and reallocated them for water projects.”
They put the ballot measure on hold because the figured out how to do the same thing without a vote.
That’s just crazy. More inclusiveness and diversity training is what’s needed most. In 157 different languages of course.
‘It is more like Kansas. It is for the most part vast farmland, good farmland, as long as there is water for irrigation’.
Operative phrase ‘as long as there is water for irrigation’. We drove the Central Valley south in the fall of 2009. Many small signs that read ‘Congress created dustbowl’. No longer live in California and have been wondering if the politicos have released more water for the farmers. Nothing but a political destruction of the farms, all to protect a tiny fish.
In 2009, newly minted President Obama came to give Florida a GREAT gift, approximately $2.40 billion to construct the Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail line with an anticipated cost of $2.65 billion. Why was Florida so lucky? Because there had been a 10+ year previous effort that had setup right-of-ways and gotten a degree of public acceptance.
By 2011, when new Governor Scott ran on a platform to cancel the project and then did so and then withstood a legal challenge about his authority to do so, the cost factor versus the expected revenues was already severely under question. While various city and other ‘interested parties’ were convinced that they could shield the taxpayers from cost over-runs, articles like this show that this was a pipe-dream like many others from the opium dens of government projects!
The “tube project” that’s more imaginary?
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Left Coasters are so far behind... Didn’t NYC have a pneumatic tube subway in testing back in the 1840’s?
No, they have not released any more water for ag.
It’s profoundly worse than it was in 2009 if memory (of how it was in ‘09) serves. I recall those “dustbowl” signs. There hasn’t been an additional thimbleful of water allocated since then.
I would like to point out that the exact same people who believe high speed rail is feasible seem to believe that the concept of a much simpler project, a border wall, if darned near impossible.
“The Simpsons” monorail episode covered this ground pretty thoroughly.
69 Billion dollars could have bought Southwest airlines a lot of airliners.
Since it is a gov’t program they will run over it.
But a six toed salamander on your property is cause for the feds to shut you down.
Add a THIRD LANE to I-5 for a billion or so (if that) and call it a day.
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