Caption Obama's high-speed Rail to FAIL

[Lucky9teen]

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to make remarks on a proposed high-speed rail system in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, April 16, 2009. President Obama outlined his plan for developing "long overdue" high-speed rail on Thursday that would rival air travel, create jobs and help curb the U.S. transportation system's appetite for oil.


U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to audience members after delivering remarks on a proposed high-speed rail system in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, April 16, 2009.


Vice President Joe Biden reacts to the audience after making remarks, with President Barack Obama, on expanding the high speed rail system, Thursday, April 16, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.

[a fool in paradise]

Any fool can see it is not the middle this nation and perhaps more development in lower population states might encourage more equitable population distribution.

[a fool in paradise]

Japan and France are much much smaller than the United States.

[syriacus]

Traveling by rail is great if
1. you don’t have 3 children with you
2. the restrooms are working

[texmexis best]

It’ll take about 3 days to go to Seattle and the cost will be $20.00 less than flying.

This is from experience with Amtrak.

[Joe 6-pack]

[Dagnabitt]

High speed rail can be nice because one travels from downtown to downtown without the hassle of getting into and out of airports. Have had some nice trips in Europe on the things.

Before passing final judgment: Let's see transit times, a club car sketch and the bar menu for the LA-Vegas run.

[a fool in paradise]

So it’ll be like taking Greyhound?

[a fool in paradise]

And no malcontent has interfered with the tracks.

And no engineer is busy texting when he should be doing his job.

[Lucky9teen]

[a fool in paradise]

SCARY. Bring it to the silliness thread tomorrow...

[llevrok]

What! Me worry?

[bill1952]

Passenger Trains: A 19th century solution to a 21st century problem.

Lets have a bigger waste of taxpayer money than AMTRAK.

[texmexis best]

Yup. I can just see the ads now:

“Spend 6 days of your vacation on our superfast trains!”

[llevrok]

He’ll make the trains run on time.

That's all the Italians wanted from il Duce too.

[sbhitchc]

"Can I be Jim Taggart Barack?"

[Procyon]

High-speed rail is heavily subsidized in every country. It will require a $4.00/gallon gas tax to move people out of their cars and into the trains which, of course, won’t go where you want to go.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I guess he needed a way to get people to re-education camps quicker. “

Ding ding ding... we have a winner.

[JusPasenThru]

I hate to be so shallow but Biden looks like an alien life form and he freaks me out.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Here’s my plans for the Tooterville Trolley all across America”.....

[bill1952]

>Bullet Trains are very common in Japan, and span the entire country

So what? The entire country has the land mass of New Jersey, with about 200 times the population density.

They had money to waste building it, and massive public spending did not budge the long standing stagflation.

Profitable? I doubt it.
If it were possible to be profitable, then private enterprise would have rushed to build it without fail.