Posted on 04/30/2018 10:06:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nashville, TN. Hey!! Paging Nashville Tennessee! Transit vote is tomorrow! Read this! Get a clue!!
Monorail. monorail. monorail.
I could see two paths being able to financially make it and turn a profit. New York to Washington. New York to Chicago. Beyond them, there’s zero chance that any of these will ever pay back what it costs to build and run it.
But, but...it’s shiny! And, global warming!
“As for the high speed aspect of the train, the Authority now admits that the two-hour-and-40-minute travel time that helped sell the initial bonding of the train in 2008 will now slip to, at best, three hours and 30 minutes. Travel time on some runs will be up to five hours.”
Well, currently, Amtrak from Oakland to Downtown Los Angeles is about 12 hours, but if you take Amtrak’s “bus bridge,” it’s only 6 or 7. So here you have a subsidized railroad offering “bus service” to cut a trip’s time in half. But the current section of CA’s “high-speed rail” really does make sense, because our illegal Mexican farm workers will eventually be able to “speed up and down the Central Valley” moving from crop to crop to pick them!
Monorail...Can you build that for half the price of regular tracks?
Even in China, where labor costs are low and land is seized at will, HSR is a wasteful political boondoggle:
Daniel Albalate, a professor in the department of economic policy at the University of Barcelona and co-author of The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail (Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2013), acknowledges that the HSR network is increasing at an impressive rate in China. He also notes its accessibility issues. There is a pronounced difference in fares: HSR fares usually cost between seven and 10 cents per kilometre per person in China, compared to two or three cents for traditional intercity rail.
HSR prices are much higher than prior prices of railway services and we know that the arrival of HSR is usually linked to the dismantling of conventional lines, Albalate argues. Those users that today are not willing to pay the new price are now worse off travelling by bus.
I did the math elsewhere....if you ditched the rail project and the State of California gave a 100% subsidy on round-trip airfare from SAN Fran to LAX it would STILL be cheaper.
She's dead, Jim.
I’ve read that Walt Disney offered to design and build a Monorail System that ran above the Center Median of the 5 Freeway from OC to LA way back when.
Being Elevated it wouldn’t have required much money to purchase much Land for Right of Way.
But the Democrat crooks get rich.
Walt Disney offered to loop the original to the anaheim city hall at his expense and the city declined
Think of the money that could be used to help the illegal alien invasion instead!!
Fleets of pay-per-use self-driving cars will decimate what is left of the passenger train industry.
California is going to need that money for all the Hondurans arriving.
Slow Death of the Train to Nowhere
Not exactly nowhere, but close.
The HSR always seems to pass through the state capital?
Here in Illinois, they have been clamoring For Chiraq to Springfield HSR.
No money to maintain local roads or public transportation, but HSR!!!
I dont remember the exact original figure now, but I could have sworn it was much less than $32 billion dollars when the voters were asked to approve this idiotic plan. For some reason $11 billion comes to mind.
They thought theyd sucker the populace to go for it, then reveal the true cost later on.
I was having none of it, but folks once again suckered for a Leftist pack of lies.
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