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It's the Bullet Train ... to Nowhere
Fox News. ^
| February 14, 2011
| William La Jeunesse
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: highspeedrail; obamachoochoo; prop1a
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To: LibFreeOrDie
I’ll bet everytime that thing goes into a tunnel, there’s a volcanic eruption.
To: goldstategop
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.
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posted on
02/15/2011 8:09:37 AM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
To: george76
HEDLEY LAMARR: "Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge..."
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posted on
02/16/2011 12:44:59 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: george76
HEDLEY LAMARR: "Rock Ridge, Rock Ridge..."
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posted on
02/16/2011 12:45:22 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: frogjerk
“Land snatching, land snatching. . .”
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posted on
02/16/2011 12:57:54 PM PST
by
drew
To: HiTech RedNeck
What, you cant appreciate how poetic it is to have a train passing a prison?
It would be cool is someone wrote a song abot that very subject. Someone like Johnny Cash...
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:20:00 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
To: Army Air Corps
It would be cool is someone wrote a song abot that very subject. Someone like Johnny Cash..."I hear the train a'comin'. It's rollin' round the bend."
"And I . . . .
". . . . ahhh, never mind. Damn bullet train's gone already."
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:24:52 PM PST
by
airborne
(Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
What, you cant appreciate how poetic it is to have a train passing a prison?
It would be cool is someone wrote a song abot that very subject. Someone like Johnny Cash...
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:25:24 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: airborne
I saw a blur a comin’, it’s already up and gone...
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:29:07 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:37:55 PM PST
by
airborne
(Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
To: george76
I hope this isn't serious.
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posted on
02/16/2011 5:40:08 PM PST
by
AGreatPer
(Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
To: AGreatPer
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posted on
02/17/2011 8:49:28 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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