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High-speed train trip going nowhere
Sacramento Bee ^
| 5/11/11
| Dan Walters
Posted on 05/11/2011 12:52:25 PM PDT by SmithL
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posted on
05/11/2011 12:52:30 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
When considering high speed rail, has anyone looked at the number of accidents with regular trains and what would happen if an accident occured at speeds of 100mph? How may people would say could survive a wreck like that.
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posted on
05/11/2011 12:57:07 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: SmithL
We get the same $hit here in NY .......... "by Rep. Louise Slaughter - New York's path to a renewed economy is high-speed rail."
WTF? These scumbags are sooooo out of touch with reality it's scary.
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posted on
05/11/2011 12:57:37 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: SmithL
a classic ‘ high-speed ‘ rail job
when will voters learn?
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posted on
05/11/2011 12:58:46 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: SmithL
I voted against this bottomless crap-hole of an idea, but did they listen to me? NooOOoooOOOo. At least with aircraft, the Satan worshiping goat humpers only have a good shot at it during take off and landing.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:01:18 PM PDT
by
RingerSIX
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
To: RC2
the tax money leaves your ownership at high-speed, the rest is Willie Green BS.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:04:05 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: SmithL
That’s today’s liberals: winning the future with 19th century technology.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:04:52 PM PDT
by
jpl
To: SmithL
the Economist, a highbrow British magazine Make that a high LEFT eyebrow British Magazine
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:24:16 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
To: SmithL
When you can fly on Southwest for sixty nine bucks from Oakland to L.A.......WHY??
To: RC2
I can't imagine a high-speed passenger service on the existing trackage. If that train ever collided with another train, vehicles at uncontrolled crossings, people or animals, it would be catastrophic.
It would have to be BART writ large: completely grade-separated, new stations, etc. And who is the ridership for this without massive subsidies? If it is in the Central Valley, what would it connect - Sacramento to Fresno?
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:27:15 PM PDT
by
RhoTheta
("We're from the Government, and we're here to help you ... NOT")
To: SmithL
Man...that sucks.....seems we have to bus the miscreants to Bakersfield before having the luxury of riding them out of town on a rail......tar and feathers optional.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:28:54 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
To: SmithL
High-speed train trip going nowhere, and Willie Green is again deeply saddened.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:31:26 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The American taxpayer cannot support the tax and spend habits of DC.)
To: SmithL
Forget about it!....
To: SmithL
High speed trains produce high speed train unions.
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:50:45 PM PDT
by
cruise_missile
(Palin: More woman than Michelle. More man than Barack.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Because the illegals do not have to show id to ride a train.
To: RC2
The liberal news stations ( That would be all of them) in Florida are moaning about how Gov. Scott gave the 2.5 Billion back that will now go to other states. As Gov. Scott points out, we already lose 35 million + per year on the Light rail system in Dade, Broward and Palm beach counties, probably the highest population density in the state. Enjoy your Avocado’s CA
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posted on
05/11/2011 1:58:01 PM PDT
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: SmithL
To: RC2
Ask Elijah Price aka Mr. Glass
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:00:55 PM PDT
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: SmithL
Those who govern in CA are truly idiots. The problem is not in need for HS rail but the need for more available mass trasportation. If the Redline was still running to all of its original points in the LA basin, the railcars would be continuously overflowing with riders and probably profitable. But nooooo, the want to travel fast and underground. I can only imagine what LA might look like today if they allowed Walt Disney to build the monorail system he offered them for free.
To: SmithL
Why would you build a hi-speed rail system in a state that is waiting for the Big One? Picture a train traveling very, very fast when the ground suddenly heaves beneath the rails.
Even if the Big One is not a worry to you the tracks are still going to cross fault lines that move some number of inches per year that has to be a concern to a train traveling over 100 miles per hour.
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posted on
05/11/2011 2:11:42 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
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