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$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off.( Choo-choo alert! )
L.A. Weekly ^ | Sep 23 2010 | Patrick Range McDonald

Posted on 09/27/2010 3:57:57 AM PDT by Leisler

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To: Willie Green

The idea is to move people, not have a monument. Light rail is hundreds of time more expensive per passenger per mile than alternatives, which already exist, which would mean no union skim, hack contractors, welfare for the finance class.


21 posted on 09/27/2010 6:54:51 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: DrC
I know union steelworkers from that project. They say it was so poorly done, that it will be big repair maintenance bills forever.
22 posted on 09/27/2010 6:56:40 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: Leisler
The idea is to move people, not have a monument.

Monorails don't get stuck in gridlock like cars and buses do.

23 posted on 09/27/2010 7:11:03 AM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer ~ and some people polka.)
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To: Leisler

But, but won’t the subway be the first to flood when the seas rise due to glo-bull warming?


24 posted on 09/27/2010 7:17:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( AKA Rodrigo de Bivar)
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To: Willie Green
Head Up Posterior Some things do get stuck, Willie. Looks like a liplock to me, like your love of statist boondoggles.
25 posted on 09/27/2010 7:43:38 AM PDT by jimt
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To: Leisler

James Moore is a hardcore supporter of Sustainable Development. Antonio Villaraigosa has been working with ICLEI for years to promote Agenda 21. It never fails; every time you see anything dealing with passenger rail, the people behind it support this globalist agenda.


26 posted on 09/27/2010 7:57:16 AM PDT by wheresmyusa
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To: jimt

Thanks jim... conservatives know that we can always rely on you libertarians for your dumbed-down lack of class.


27 posted on 09/27/2010 8:02:39 AM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer ~ and some people polka.)
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To: Leisler
I like Neal Boortz idea of making all Government workers work from home and incentivize a way for business to all their workers to do the same. This would save the government a ton of money on infrastructure maintenance.
28 posted on 09/27/2010 8:13:05 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: Leisler

“big repair maintenance bills forever.”

Well that’s one way to maintain demand for your skills: do a lousy job and then the state will keep hiring you to fix what should have been done right in the first place.


29 posted on 09/27/2010 8:41:53 AM PDT by DrC
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They should call it “The Robbers Express”.

The Third world Gang Bangers will hop on and ride down to Santa Monica and rob, rape and murder the rich elites in Santa Monica.

30 posted on 09/27/2010 9:11:38 AM PDT by troy McClure
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To: Willie Green

If they were popular, they would at the station have gridlock, but they are not popular, so they never suffer from over use, like the immensely popular roads do.


31 posted on 09/27/2010 8:29:14 PM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: DrC

He said they were ordered to do it according to plans and specs.


32 posted on 09/27/2010 8:31:06 PM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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To: T. P. Pole
Google Invests In Human-Powered Monorail System


33 posted on 09/28/2010 12:03:23 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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To: Willie Green
Monorails don't get stuck in gridlock like cars and buses do.

Private buses leasing private ROW eliminate connections, and are not as subject to the inevitable breakdown, strike, or act of tyranny.

But then, you know all about tyranny, don't you Wille? There isn't a single big-budget proposal you have ever made here that isn't subject to centralized command and control.

Cars equipped with collision avoidance on intelligent freeways will soon carry far more passengers per hour than any rail system you can conjure, even beyond your usual pack of lies.

34 posted on 09/28/2010 1:00:11 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Managing "The Environment" is the power to control the entire economy.)
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To: calcowgirl

LOL. I think I would want rubber bumpers on those. Might even make them more fun.


35 posted on 09/28/2010 5:21:01 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: T. P. Pole

WooHoo!

Aerial bumper cars!

:-)


36 posted on 09/28/2010 12:51:47 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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