Posted on 03/05/2017 3:51:28 PM PST by MaxistheBest
Ooooh. Good one Doogle !
Actually this isn’t the bullet train (though it does tie in with it). It’s a line that’s been running between SF and San Jose forever. Their problem is there just aren’t that many people who commute between to two cities, and driving is faster anyway due to all the stops along the way.
What he said.
It's all a fake-out. There are no savings, only massive amounts of spending. Local politicians made a bunch of noise about converting the diesel Caltrans trains to overhead electric wires, with the politically correct nonsense of clean energy.
Problem is, the trains are already electric. The diesel engines on the trains create electricity to drive the electric motors on the wheels of the trains. The trains are already hybrid. And the electricity is created locally on the train, and not wasted by resistance on overhead wires from hundreds of miles away. So the existing trains are efficient already.
The fake-out is that the money was diverted into building new train stations, new overpasses and tunnels while they're converting to overhead electric wiring. Let's save money by spending tons of it!
Yeah kind of like our lottery dollars are supposed to go to the education system!!! LOL, LOL, LOL
These people are NOT us, they are illegal immigrants VOTING IN DROVES, they have also done resdistricting according to census ALSO full of illegal immigrants WE HAVE NO representation ANY LONGER!!! If immigration is not taken seriously over this country our ENTIRE NATION will be CA.!!! I LIVE IT EVERY DAMNED DAY, I had to learn Spanish to get by in my everyday life here!!! Fact is they should NOT be able to afford to live here, HOWEVER with ALL of the BENEFITS given out to them they are living BETTER than WE ARE!!!
Mr. Trump just released the brakes on “the train to nowhere”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3554283/posts
Disappointing, this would have make a good little start on reducing the $475 billion yearly deficit and not add to the $20 trillion debt. But nooooo!!
Which Amendment to the United States Constitution explains that Electrified Trains are a Right?
Is it hidden somewhere like Abortion and Gay Marriage?
It’s right there, plain, in the Penumbra.
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