Janice Hahn is the daughter of Kenny Hahn the long time L.A. County Surpivor.
I met Kenny Hahn yers ago, and had the misfortune of having to interact with his staff. He was a slimeball machine politician of the worst kind.
BS. It is taxes and regulation that are doing this, not transportation congestion. Hey, you dimwit, how about dealing with the 5,000,000 illegals driving on the roads of California?
Idiots like this should be horsewhipped.
If High Speed Rail is so great, and so crucial, why isn’t it being built all across the country by now? Why doesn’t the government do exactly what they did in the 1800’s to get the Transcontinental Railway completed? Bullet trains railways need new tracks and new paths that can be built to accommodate the higher speeds. THAT would be a stimulus...........
"Democrat-mandated diversion of millions of tax payer dollars to labor unions that donate to Democrat politicians via union dues"
In summary.. MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION
If we could tax, borrow and spend our way to prosperity, we’d all be rich by now.
A fact to consider:
Passenger rail service has NEVER been profitable, and has always been subsidized by freight charges.
These people are delusional
Willie Green, please pick up the perennial in the red public train courtesy phone...
Government Corporate Union Welfare.
Take the total cost of building and operating for a decade, divide by ridership, and I’ll bet anything it is more than $1,000,000 per rider.
You can pay people to stay home and it is cheaper than trains. Almost every time.
A basic problem with this high speed rail is paradoxical.
This is, that about the only place you can put such rail is over the same right of way already used by low speed rail.
And almost all the low speed rail right of ways West of the Mississippi are owned by Union Pacific. Creating new right of way would be insanely expensive.
But this also means that the California high speed rail is intended to take the place of low speed rail lines. And in this case, if low speed rail already existed, it is a great indicator of how profitable high speed rail lines would be.
In a nutshell, it isn’t. The low speed rail lines on this route have long been money losers. There just isn’t the demand they need even for low speed rail.
But, they insist, high speed rail will be profitable. Because it is high! and speed! and rail!
And that is no way to run a railroad.
Barf me out...
I'm sick and tired of these liberal a$$h*le politicians saying we need things for "thousands of jobs"! It's always a lie! Heck, let's build a monorail to Hawaii, that'll create thousands of jobs. But we do not need these things!
Let's spend money because it's critical and necessary, not because it's wonderful to have someone work on it (and worthless middlemen make up the bulk of "jobs"). High speed trains are trains to no where and don't benefit the majority of people who would never use it. You want transportation, provide more bus lines. Far cheaper and more flexible.
High speed rail lines require many things . Long straight runs that don’t have towns & cities along the line because you have to slow down when going thru towns & cities to be safe due to city traffic & noise complaints . You need a dedicated rail line ie no freight trains on the same track as the high speed rail. most important of all is paying customers to ride the damn thing . if you don’t have these things you got a boondoggle ,nothing else.
Critical?
Bull manure! Something we’ve never had does not somehow become critical to have.
Invariably, the more gubmint thugs lust after a thing, the more detrimental it is or will be to JQ Public. That’s Robin’s Law #3.
Now that I think about it, since we’re all going to be subsidizing this high-speed train line with tax payments for a long long time, I’d rather build the train line from from LA to Las Vegas. At least then, when we get off the train in Vegas we’ll get free drinks from hot-looking waitresses as partial compensation for our tax subsidies. I suggest we re-route this train from LA to Las Vegas.