Another money pit.
That Simpsons Monorail episode summed all of this up really well.
What percentage of the workforce will have to be Obama Illegals and of course LGBT ?
State ok’s 8B.
Where is the remaining 100B going to come from?
Green Energy tax kickbacks
What the voters approved in 2008, is no where near what is being built. Not the speed, not the cost. This is light rail on steroids.
Once again, disenfranchisement.
Building hi-speed rail through a major seismic-risk area crisscrossed by faults, what could go wrong??!!
The success story of the Frankfurt airport to Koln high-speed rail: Built between 1995 and 2002....it cost around $7 billion to complete. Today? It runs once per hour. The ticket is around $110 (this was the cost in 2006, it may have gone down) for a one-way ticket between the Frankfurt airport and Koln, 110 miles in distance.
It’s a sixty-minute ride...where the normal ICE train could do the the job in roughly 2.5 hours.
How many thousands of people ride the train daily? Well...it’s mostly businessmen because of the cost. At some point in 2006, they were reporting a typical training leaving Frankfurt for Koln had around thirty people onboard. The entire train consisted of two cars. I would imagine they could have held roughly eighty people on the two cars max.
As for paying off the billions invested? Zero chance. It pretty much killed off all chances of a second future high-speed rail system in Germany.
It only makes sense if you intend to run a fast line from some airport to the nearby town (say twenty miles max). Otherwise, it’s a total waste of funds.
…as well as going bankrupt.
The only thing that’s going at high speed is all the water going down the drain! How about fixing the drought?
SoCal is the last place that needs 20th-century rail; it’s the place that Li-ion cars work best!
How much federal funds are going to this damned boondoggle?
They can call it “The Gimsmedat Flyer”
The “Big Dig” on steroids.
Pig iron seems appropriate for a pork-barrel railroad where there's lots of foolin' goin' on. All aboard!
Mr. niteowl77
He refuses to build water storage infrastructure.. back in the 70s and today,, but is more than happy to blow billions on a train to nowhere.
Who would “Buy”these”Bonds”?Helen Keller?????
And right here is the root of my problem with this plan. It's about 350 miles between SF and LA but with all of the gerrymanders to the route that have been put in by Democrats the route will be ridiculously long and it will be ridiculously slow because the trains will have to stop at every single podunk along the way instead of being an express between LA and SF like it should be.
It's a waste of money. Cancel this thing and let the French build it like they originally proposed.
In the new Green California Liberal Land, when cars, carbon and killing animals are banned...where no coal plants, no drilling and no fracking...when all weapons are surrendered to the local police and every food eaten must be non-GMO and organic....when Mexico annexes most of the tax revenue...and every $15 minimum wage earner is unionized, taught in Common Core and registered Democrat...the rail line will be legacy Jerry Brown leaves as the means of transportation to the re-education camps for the remaining Conservatives.