[NaughtiusMaximus]

Taxed Enough Already.

[glorgau]

1.28 billion for SF to San Jose. Amazing waste of money.

[dalereed]

High speed rail or any rail is an effort in stupidity!

[DHSMostWanted]

Uncle Sam to California: FU!

[Ronin]

They seem to come up with this idea every ten years or so, but it always gets quashed due to environmental issues.

Give it a rest. It will never happen.

[antiunion person]

if they ask for 4.6 billion, it will probably cost 20 billion and only 5 people on a good day will ride it. Bay Area Mass Transit only transports about 4% of what their capacity is. Spend the money of building dams and reservoirs to get our asses out of the drought the environmentalists state we are in. Or just send more fresh water out to the ocean to help save some POS whale.

[jveritas]

What a waste of our tax payers money.

I was in France on business earlier this week and I took the French TGV for the first time. The trip was from Paris to the city Caen in the Normandy region. The ride was so uncomfortable that I almost threw up. When the high speed train makes even the slightest turns at very high speed it will just turn the stomach upside down. In fact if someone stands up during these turns it is highly likely that he will fall.

[Secret Agent Man]

Besides other obvious reasons not to, yes, let’s put these trains along active earthquake routes. REALLY spend the moeny wisely. Shur.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Imagine whizzing from Anaheim to San Francisco in just two hours and 57 minutes on a high-speed train, to enjoy dim sum in Chinatown. For $40 billion or so, it might just come to pass!

That'a pretty expensive dim sum. Like L.A doesn't have dim sum?

[goldstategop]

It will never get built. Its the White Elephant of high speed rail in America.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[DannyTN]

Monorail!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

From POLITICO 2-17-09:

OBAMA PLOTS HUGE RAIL EXPANSION

. . .The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill. . .dedicates $8 billion to high-speed rail. . .added in the final closed-door bargaining at the instigation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18924.html

All this was a done deal last year.

[dalebert]

how about calli ask for water in the valley

[UAConservative]

Funding from a Federal Government who can’t run Amtrak to the county that had the largest financial implosion of any government in US history! Gee, I feel better already!

[truthguy]

I live in California. Please don’t give us the money for this boon doggle. This is a waste of money.

[Windflier]

Good gawdamighty. California is crumbling, and these people want $40 billion dollars of (other) US taxpayers’ money for a high speed rail network?

And just what on earth will this do to improve anything in California? What value will such a huge undertaking give back to the American taxpayers who fund it?

Pure insanity...

[Leisler]

Another place for fagous to shlag each other.

[sergeantdave]

Mass transit tends to attract bums, gangbangers, socialist mayors and hairy, fat men wearing pink tu-tus and Charles Manson tatoos. I’d rather walk, thank you.

[Just mythoughts]

Strange times for liberalville to be begging from US, dollars to build rails with trains.