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California Clears A Major Hurdle Toward Building Nation's Most Ambitious High-Speed Rail System
Business Insider ^
| 08/01/2014
Posted on 08/01/2014 8:04:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Noamie
yes lol that is a classic episode.
To: SeekAndFind
How much federal funds are going to this damned boondoggle?
They can call it “The Gimsmedat Flyer”
The “Big Dig” on steroids.
To: SeekAndFind
"Well I fooled you
I fooled you
I've got pig iron
I've got pig iron
I've got all-l-l-l pig iron."
Pig iron seems appropriate for a pork-barrel railroad where there's lots of foolin' goin' on. All aboard!
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:31:21 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
(The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:34:35 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: Noamie
That Simpsons Monorail episode summed all of this up really well.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: dfwgator
RE: Its actually cheaper to fly between cities in Europe than to take a train.
What? And be taken down by a Surface to Air Missile? /s
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:43:05 AM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
For less than $8 billion Boeing will sell them a fleet of magic levitation ultra high speed trains.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:43:08 AM PDT
by
Reeses
To: CondorFlight
I agree with you, they need water, they are going to lose 2 billion just this year in crop loss.
Flying is safer, faster, and much cheaper than this boondoggle and there are empty seats now, so there is no demand for Jerry’s train.
You could employ countless construction workers building desalination plants, laying the pipelines for transit, pumping stations and much more and collect loads of tax revenue in the sales of clean useable water to revitalized towns and the thousands of new homes that could be built in the desert if they had water.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:53:41 AM PDT
by
reefdiver
(Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
To: cicero2k
I’m sure the contractors and equipment providers are affiliates of the state regime....
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:55:27 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: SeekAndFind
Who would “Buy”these”Bonds”?Helen Keller?????
To: All
The plan to build an 800-mile high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles 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.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:57:31 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: BitWielder1
Besides, I don't think a high-speed rail in a major earthquake zone is a particularly good idea. That's not a valid argument given that HSR works just fine in Japan.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:58:48 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: dfwgator
Its actually cheaper to fly between cities in Europe than to take a train. But by taking the train in Europe you get to experience the full flavor of European culture by getting robbed and assaulted by Turks and Romanians.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:01:48 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: SeekAndFind
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.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:13:08 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: SeekAndFind; Army Air Corps
Willie Green Memorial Ping
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:22:30 AM PDT
by
palmer
(This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
To: SeekAndFind
So if the headline SCREAMS "Most Ambitious High-Speed Rail System", my read of proper English Grammar would say that somewhere in the US, someone else is building a less ambitious High-Speed Rail System. My question is ... WHERE?
Also, the use of the term 'System' indicates something other than a single line. Is this California Dream going to have more than a singular North and South terminus is the next quarter-century or so?
English, how it is corrupted, but then again, there is California!
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:40:42 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: palmer
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:43:12 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: GeronL
Willie Green Memorial Ping.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:43:36 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: reefdiver
You could employ countless construction workers building desalination plants, laying the pipelines for transit, pumping stations and much more and collect loads of tax revenue in the sales of clean useable water to revitalized towns and the thousands of new homes that could be built in the desert if they had water. Run that by the Sierra Club and see their response - it would be a major ecological disaster!
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:48:07 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: PTBAA
Building hi-speed rail through a major seismic-risk area crisscrossed by faults, what could go wrong??!!Would make for a pretty good Irwin Allen movie though...
(what?...he's dead?)
...never mind.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:48:52 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
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