Sure glad Governor Scott killed the Tampa to Orlando high speed rail boondoggle.
the majority of the state gets what they deserve...they keep voting for the Marxists.
the minority are leaving in droves taking their wealth and businesses(jobs) with them....California will be the new Greece.
my own current state of NY Sucks...but it is no where near the idiocy of California.
The problem here has nothing to do with high-speed rail technology. AFter all, there re a number of places in the world where these things have been built, work just fine, and everybody loves them. But nothing major will be built in our society until a serious public reaction takes place against NIMBYism. It needs to be made uncool, like smoking.
Search the history of the George Lucas studio debacle for an illustrative case.
Who wouldn't want the taxpayers of this once-Golden State to pay a mere 100 billion so that by 2020, someone in a hurry could pay twice (or more) as much as driving in order to save a half-hour (not counting parking, ticketing, security which would add back over an hour) to travel between the California cultural and population centers of Merced and Bakersfield?
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As long as the liberals think they can convince you to give them more money, they will try.
Major seismic zone California.
It’s called the Browndoggle.
When the government builds a transportation system, it is never profitable. It is always subsidized by the taxpayers! The costs to build it are just the beginning of an entrenched system to bilk taxpayers for generations to come. Every transportation system run by government in California is heavily subsidized by taxpayers; look at Caltrain, SamTrans (San Mateo) and Muni (San Francisco) as examples that are more than two-thirds subsidized by taxpayers. High-speed rail will certainly be subsidized to an even greater extent than two-thirds because the fares will never be high enough to cover running costs. And it will fail because operating costs will drain the state budget at an alarming rate.