HEDLEY LAMARR: "Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge..."
Posted on 02/14/2011 5:38:00 PM PST by george76
Hailed as a high-speed road to the future, a jobs program and a symbol of America's dedication to innovation, President Obama proposed Monday spending $8 billion on a bullet train -- a down payment on a nationwide network that will cost $58 billion over the next six years.
But in the one state where the federal high-speed rail project is underway, critics say money is being misspent, ridership studies are inflated, the route is politically corrupted and the system will never be self supporting.
"They don't know where they're going to build it, they don't have a mile of right of way under possession, it is not shovel ready, it is not even engineer ready,"...
The first leg of the project is slated for the middle of Central Valley -- not between major cities, or congested freeway corridors like San Francisco and San Jose or Orange County and Los Angeles. The Central Valley site is between Borden -- a point on the map where no one lives -- and Corcoran, a town where half the residents will never board a train because they're in prison.
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I’ll bet everytime that thing goes into a tunnel, there’s a volcanic eruption.
I agree!
A high speed rail system would need to be built from the ground up at Union Labor prices. The Japan rail system is separate and cruises at 120 mph. Japan is also about the size of California.
To build one here in the USA, it would cost several hundred billion dollars and would never be profitable. The maintenance alone on thousands of miles of special and separate Interstate track would bankrupt the Federal Government.
HEDLEY LAMARR: "Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge..."
HEDLEY LAMARR: "Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge..."
“Land snatching, land snatching. . .”
i know, i know
"I hear the train a'comin'. It's rollin' round the bend."
"And I . . . .
". . . . ahhh, never mind. Damn bullet train's gone already."
I saw a blur a comin’, it’s already up and gone...
LOL!
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