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Map Shows Where 220mph Trains Would Go in the U.S.
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| 10 Feb 2013
| Charlie White
Posted on 03/04/2013 2:59:36 PM PST by MeganC
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To: Redmen4ever
no one would ride them once a terrorist blows up a rail
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posted on
03/04/2013 5:38:21 PM PST
by
mriguy67
To: Army Air Corps
That’s the way Willie would do it, do it, do it, and do it .... until you were fed up with it.
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posted on
03/04/2013 5:44:40 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting boxes to do it.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
lol
is that a REAL map or a complete joke?
so CHICAGO is the high speed rail hub of the US ?!?!?!??!!
ROFL
OMFG! you have GOT to be KIDDING Me!!! who the hell goes to Chigago!!!!!!
this is either a joke, or Obamas personal kickback to his adopted corupt state.
That was also my observation. The only pattern I see here is that Chicago is supposed to be the hub for this high-speed rail delusion...as if anybody cares about going to Chicago. I'm guessing the airhead that came up with this idea is some kind of sniveling union hack from Chicago.
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posted on
03/04/2013 5:44:40 PM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: meyer
Why not just utilize instant videoconferencing/Skipe communications untill the “green energy” matter transporters are perfected?
Frankly I would much rather taxpayers funded the research of genious level engineers than pay for faster choo choo trains!
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posted on
03/04/2013 5:48:45 PM PST
by
sarasmom
(The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
To: B4Ranch
Spot on...spot on...spot on...
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posted on
03/04/2013 6:08:43 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: MeganC
HSR works in Europe, Japan and China because they have small amounts of land and are very densely populated. So train service can be quite profitable there even with government subsidies.
Here it would be a White Elephant. Expensive to build and maintain and impractical as day to day transportation. It is an Obamaphile’s wet dream though.
Which is why it periodically rises from the dead even after a stake has been driven through it. I don’t think it will become a reality, certainly not in my lifetime. HSR is just a hi-tech toy train fantasy.
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posted on
03/04/2013 6:36:58 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: MeganC
In the SF Bay area there is NO WHERE to build a corridor for high speed anything.
Sure there is. It can be built along the right of way that Cal Train uses, it can be built elevated on top of that right of way, and it can be built under that right of way just the same as BART is built under a portion of that right of way. Not practical. If built, it won't be high speed, not along the CalTrain right of way. And it will be expensive. Lots of lawsuits, hearings, delays happening now with the changes due to electrification of CalTrain trains. Which was forced by liberal idiots (diesel was fine, generating electricity for the existing train engines). High speed rail is impossible on that corridor, just can't happen.
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posted on
03/04/2013 7:43:58 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: MeganC
And you can’t run that at 200 mph. Moreover all the efforts of the current ‘bullet’ train in California have been environmentally rebuffed in the Bay Area. My statement stands
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:10:42 PM PST
by
Nifster
To: Political Junkie Too
Perhaps a new way to find revenue???? A whole new version of a Disneyland ride.....
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posted on
03/04/2013 9:14:07 PM PST
by
Nifster
To: MeganC
Will this speedy rail system be going near your house? Should the United States catch up with the rest of the developed world and build the system, or should budget constraints keep us from spending money on this futuristic conveyance?Catch up with the rest of the world?
Whoopie!All of Europe is what? The size of California?
This article had to have been written by a very young kid, or a sub-70 IQ type.
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posted on
03/04/2013 11:55:46 PM PST
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: familyop
No prairie dogs where I live...Wisconsin. Don’t really want them, thank you very much. Oppossums arrived in my state in the late seventies, and they say armadillos will eventually make it this far north. But I don’t know why the prairie dog population does not make its way eastward from the Dakotas. Can’t swim across the Missouri?
To: Dutch Boy
Of course they are! Have you ever tried using strikes to disrupt freeway travel? It doesn’t work very well....
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posted on
03/05/2013 3:51:26 AM PST
by
Eepsy
To: concentric circles
Wow! They moved Birmingham to Montgomery!
To: MeganC
That means that someone has spent taxpayer money on these various proposals and this map is just a summary of all of those proposals in one, single graphic.Probably a page out of the Agenda 21 playbook.
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posted on
03/05/2013 4:58:06 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: driftless2
But I dont know why the prairie dog population does not make its way eastward from the Dakotas.Varmint rifles...
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posted on
03/05/2013 5:23:37 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
With all the prairie dog holes I see going out west, varmint hunters would have to shooting 24/7 for a decade to decrease the population substantially much less get rid of them completely. I expect to see the critters setting up their own tourist stop the next time the wife and I go out that way.
To: concentric circles
Why does Quincy, IL get a rail link?
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posted on
03/05/2013 11:41:26 AM PST
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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