My rant #2:
All the numbers being offered up are false:
“2.1 hours to go from LA to SD is faster by 50 minutes than in a peak traffic car”...
What a hoot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does the train come to my front door or driveway to start?
Drop me off at the office building in San Diego where I need to go to?
Of course not.
Maybe Barack’s limo travels at 35/40 mph on the freeway but I don’t;
peak traffic only applies to the first few miles in rush hour ......
etc
etc
My numbers are more realistic: $1,000 for my whole family and 6 hours door to door.
Compared to $50 R/T for the whole family by car, with music, conversation, laughter and a cold drink and sandwiches!!! And safety. And privacy. And comfort. Ever lug the luggage for 6 thru a train station and station parking lot? I have.
Note: LA is 120 miles wide from top to bottom.
SD is 120 miles away, i.e. 2 hours.
Note: ever been to Union Station.?
Looks like skid room but without the BUMS i.e. dead empty.
Ever see Blade Runner?
Well the H Ford to head detective meeting scene was shot inside Union Station, inside, no other people there ...
they probably didn’t even need to close the thing off to get the right effect ha ha!
Train travel is for weirdos who are scared to drive or take a plane.
Can u say LA to SF by jet plane in 45 minutes for $25 ???
I used to do it ALL the time ...
till the scarey fairy Dimms took over and regulated it and scared it out of existence.
Or, you could live in Tokyo and have “PUSHERS” jamming the last 50 desperate travellers each morning and evening into EACH train car.The few left over that cannot fit in sometimes “pop” back out and die on the tracks; and a few are crushed to death each year if they fall down and cannot get up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever been packed into a train car designed for 50 but there are 250 in there? Well I have.
An extremely unpleasant and indeed quite horrific experience.
But the gov rats in Tokyo are happy -——— they all have black limos (and I do mean all of them), chauffeured driven cars with drivers wearing white gloves, engines idling for hours, and bowing and scraping and opening the rear doors for their pols when they finally get back in. While they wait, their hired peon removes every speck of dust from the car body with a tiny duster ......
Lemmmmmme see
Train travel or Limo with driver with white gloves ............ hmmmmmmm ....... wonder which is nicer ???
You take the train, pal. I’d rather drive, walk, crawl, or ride a bike than be packed in with Joe Six Pack, his evil smell, his goofball stare, his tatttoeed crew, and the train driver who texts while taking down $100,000 a year and then retires 97% of the time on disability !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Long Island Rail - but that’s another thread!!!)))
I hate trains. Could you guess?
“I hate trains. Could you guess?”
I was wondering what you were getting at. Actually, I think that trains are fun, but ONLY if you have the right perspective on them - which is that they are a novelty - like a carnival ride. When I go to the Northeast, I have a great time riding them - but then only because I want to...not because I have to.
I was in Germany a long time ago - heard all about the great train system in Europe. But since I had skis and needed to get places in a hurry, I rented a car. I also discovered (contrary to what had been beat into my head) that EVERYONE else there with a family drives, particularly on holiday (as they say there). That’s what I saw, TONS of BMWs and Mercedes with roof racks, going places - they were just like us.
I never did figure out what the train over there was for - maybe American tourists?
It is the communist job creation. Get everyone working on the rails. I wonder if that is the job terminator will apply for after this destruction ends as governor.
A friend of ours said this rail will not be convenient to get from point A to point B. He said California is not set up like Europe and people will be floundering to get their destination.