Posted on 03/22/2017 3:33:09 PM PDT by davikkm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge is rejecting opponents’ latest attempt to stall California’s $64 billion high-speed rail project. But Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei said Wednesday that he will consider their arguments before the state issues voter-approved bonds next month. He set a hearing for next month to consider their motion for a preliminary injunction.
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Oh, I thought you were talking about Willie Nelson, or Willie Dixon, or Boxcar Willie.
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a. There will be no ongoing cost - it will never be finished.
b. They claim that if ever finished it would employ 150,000 people. That would be vastly more than are currently employed in SF to LA passenger air transport, so it would be significantly more expensive than air travel, take longer, you will still need to rent a car at the end, and so few people will use it, meaning huge subsidies by the state government to keep it afloat and save the legacy of the idiot governor and the idiot democrats in the legislature.
c. Think Amtrak/Acela, endlessly subsidized in a corridor with at least 5x the population density of the SF-LA corridor.
d. Everybody involved in it knows the above, but is driven by ideology and the need to buy the votes of union members, uninformed and stupid people, environmentalist nutjobs, and bleeding-heart unthinking liberals.
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Don't forget to ping B-Chan, either.
You raise some issues there I hadn’t thought about.
150,000 employees at full salary...? Not in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that number.
What’s the ticket price, a lung, a kidney, one of your eyes?
I agree with the points you touched on, that they are problematic in the extreme.
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