Posted on 07/27/2010 2:01:13 PM PDT by Willie Green
A majority of Californians support the high-speed train project, with more than three-quarters saying they would like the project to be built, according to a survey commissioned by the project’s planners.
Some 76 percent of Californians indicated support for the project, with 34 percent saying they would like to see the project move forward “as quickly as possible,” according to the survey’s findings released Tuesday.
Forty-two percent said they would like to see the high-speed trains built despite some concerns over cost and timing and 13 percent were opposed to the project.
“Californians are telling us loudly and clearly that they support the state’s high-speed rail project,” said Curt Pringle, chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
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Did they segment that out by funding source? ...I didn’t think so. When you ask people whether they want ice cream, and the implication is free money - the answer is always “yes!’
A push poll. Nice try.
...story on FR the other day about high speed trains in China....one line between minor cities runs 24/7 and is standing room only...carries more passengers than the entire Amtrack system.
...isn’t that how Cali got where it is today?...the voters say ‘yeah sure!’ to anything and the pols say:’hey, the people want it”....if any pol questions it, he’s labeled ‘mean spirited’
Build it. Let it go south—way south. Offer free one-way rides to ‘qualified riders’ on the southbound. Bring it back empty. Lather, rinse, repeat. It will pay for itself within a year or two.
We can fund it with all of the money that we are taking in from the fetal stem cell industry that we paid billions for a few years ago. If you smoke a little more of that green medicine it all makes sense.
They can’t afford to even pay their own State employees and now this? Oy!
I would like a high speed train from Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach, S.C. I would also like the rest of the country to pay for it, especially taxpayers in California.
First, the project needs to include Sacramento as the northeast hub and finish in San Diego completely bypassing San Francisco. Ridership would double if those cities were included. And I would vote against it if it included “Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Belmont and Burlingame” or any other “sanctuary cities”.
A poll taken in a state that can’t pay for its high dollar pie in the sky programs that are already in place shows that the locals now also want an even higher dollar bottomless pit that they won’t be able to pay for either.
What could possibly go wrong?
“FTA: More than seven of ten long-distance travelers said they would prefer to take the high-speed rail line after being told that a trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles was likely to cost less than an airline ticket or than travel by car while being more environmentally friendly.”
One track derailment ought to change these results pretty quickly.
Good idea true BUT lets wait til we can PAY FOR IT! Maybe we could use slave labor to build it like the Chinese. Maybe use illegals arrested for being here—will not let them go home til they build the railroad.
You really want to use Ca voters as as exemplars of good sense?
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