Posted on 06/12/2010 5:38:41 AM PDT by Willie Green
Wasn’t the only good thing about Hitler, “The trains always ran on time?”. That’s the way I heard it, anyway.
Mussolini claimed to have made the trains run on time.
Someone needs to send the dumb Austrian a 3D map of California. There’s a little item like the Tehachapi Mountains to clear. It was no mean feat when the railroads designed a loop between Keene and Tehachapi.
In public school, the used to tell the story about the Chinese coolie and his pigtail being the inspiration for the engineering loop. Wonder if that is still in the history books?
leave europe in europe.
What? Does this mean you support the doggone H/S rail project? .
I got lost in the forest of negatives.
California is kinda bigger than Germany...
It depends what you mean by "bigger" Kevin.
Germany is 137,847 sq mi and 81,757,600 people.
California is 163,696 sq mi and 36,961,664 people.
So California may be ~20% or so larger geographically, but Germany has more than twice as many people.
There are several every day between LA and san Diego
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Who is paying for this?The same people who pay for our airports, airplanes, blimps/balloons, hangars, highways, parking lots, alleys cars, trucks, buses, bridges, tunnels, mopeds, sidewalks, pogo sticks, tugboats, barges, locks, dams, levees, canals.
The more they pay for, the more we have from which to choose.
EPA studies kill these things before they ever get started.
According the one train enthusiast here on FR all rail every where is good.
until the first earhquake
There are several every day between LA and san Diego
Same as Japan, where high-speed rail is very successful.
EPA studies kill these things before they ever get started.
So save some time and money: cut the red tape.
“Once you explain to a guy that a ticket for a high-speed run between LA and SD is around $160 round-trip....most folks will laugh and just say ‘no thanks’.”
Where do you get $160, idiot (just kidding). Try $800, for my family (ok, maybe a bit less for the kids, so $560). That’s really where the trade is. When taking a family on a train (and then renting a car) can compete with driving, please wake me up.
Actually, I rode the Amtrak train from north San Diego to south LA this past February. I am sure it is subsidized and my ticket was in the neighborhood of $20. I’ve also been on the Japanese Shinkansen and seen the faster trains pass. My opinion, many take the Amtrak to see the beautiful ocean views and just relax back into the past ways of viewing this great country as well as getting there just as fast as a car. I ended up having to take two bus routes and being within a few blocks of my friend’s home.
Great job for a broke state!!
Wait, don’t we already have a train that runs between San Diego and L.A.?
Don’t tell me, tell them. Not that it would matter. The EPA has its own agenda. And it doesn’t include any more trains.
The EPA has its own agenda. And it doesn’t include any more trains.
I doubt if the EPA has any intention of adopting "Drill Baby Drill" as it's new motto.
Oops...color me wrong on that one, but a commie is a commie.
Same as Japan, where high-speed rail is very successful.
Is it?
Have you been on one?
Have you compared it to the wonderful Japanese highways???
Do you know anything about the economic structure of either?
No?
Why don’t you, before you say to compare ...?
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