Could wartime records derail high-speed trains?

PressDemocrat.com ^ | Saturday, July 10, 2010 | Economist magazine

[Vaquero]

Unfriggin believable from a state that voted almost unanimously for zer0bama and his not so camouflaged position to destroy Israel.

what hypocrisy....

[mad_as_he$$]

So an Austrian will sign off on whether trains can haul Kalifornians based upon if they hauled Jews or not? Can't make this $hit up.

[logician2u]

But if America wants true high-speed rail . .

America doesn't want true high-speed rail.

Nations are collective bodies devoid of feelings or emotions such as wants, hopes and sorrows.

It may be true that a sizable number of Americans want "true high-speed rail" for whatever personal reasons, mostly I believe disconnected from economic reality.

But then I'm still wishing for teleportation as in Star Trek. Wanting and wishing will not make it so.

Neither will giving politicians control of billions of California taxpayers' dollars and hoping they will behave themselves, just this once.

The recent vote in the legislature demonstrates that this isn't going to happen.

[mountainlion]

China's new high speed rail scheme has already collapsed because people did not want to pay the high price to save a little time. 47% of California is illegal so will they make or break the system?

[ILS21R]

Hey..how about that flying car. Pretty cool huh?

[logician2u]

47% of California is illegal . .

That's quite a number, 47%. Where'd you get it?

[mountainlion]

Might have been 47% of LA

[Willie Green]

That's quite a number, 47%. Where'd you get it?

I think it used a random number generator.

[CPOSharky]

How about the rail systems that transported Japanese-Americans to concentration camps in WW2?

Too close to home cali-libtards?

[mountainlion]

The number is good just the wrong place. I just found that San Diego said 27% illegals. I don't think anyone really knows.

[Da Coyote]

Never forget that 72.7% of statistics are made up.

(100%, in the case of global warming.)

[PIF]

“Whereas European and Asian firms have long experience of building dedicated high-speed systems with trains hurtling along at 200 mph or more, what most American firms plan to offer is medium-speed trains running on existing freight tracks” at a theoretical 80 mph between numerous stops...

Your car will be faster. And do these proposals count the massive cost of this land grab? Or the subsidy per passengers per trip costs?

Proving once again that moving back to the 19th Century is a very costly socialist bad idea.

[Willie Green]

at a theoretical 80 mph between numerous stops...

Do you have a source for this deceitful misinformation that you attempted to append to the quote from the article???

[bray]

I want the Post office to bring back the Pony Express.

[sionnsar]

I want the Post office to bring back the Pony Express.

Why? Does the mail smell differently upon arrival?

[aumrl]

this is so true.
don’t want and can’t afford.
maybe willie shud poll Freepers - once and for all, on public transportation of the rail variety

[bray]

If were going to waste $$ on antiquated travel, at least let it be romantic.

[Charlespg]

Its author, Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, a Democrat, specifically highlighted the wartime record of SNCF, which nowadays operates France’s TGV high-speed trains. The French firm expects that the bill will clear all further legislative hurdles, including the sign-off by the normally veto-prone governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

For something that was done over 60 years ago in a foreign country ? this guys a dammed retard,nobody with any damm sense should do any business with California at all

[sionnsar]

How about the rail systems that transported Japanese-Americans to concentration camps in WW2?

Bingo!