Posted on 11/27/2011 10:25:17 AM PST by mdittmar
Building First Segment Will Employ More Than 100,000 People over Next Five Years
WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today awarded a $928.6 million grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority for initial construction of California High-Speed Rail. Construction will begin next year in Fresno, creating tens of thousands of jobs in California.
“California’s population will grow by 60 percent over the next 40 years,” said Secretary LaHood. “Investing in a green, job creating high-speed rail network is less expensive and more practical than paying for all of the expansions to already congested highways and airports that would be necessary to accommodate the state’s projected population boom.”
Today’s grant, when combined with voter-approved state support and previously-awarded federal dollars, will fund the construction of the first usable segment of the California system in the Central Valley. In the recently released business plan, the Authority embraced a phased implementation similar to those used for international systems. The first construction project will put more than 100,000 people to work during the next five years. Over the course of the network’s construction, more than one million jobs are expected to be created, and the economic activity spurred by the new system is expected to add up to 450,000 new non-high-speed rail jobs to the California economy by 2040.
California’s 220-mph high-speed rail system will connect to the rest of the state’s transportation network, improving local, regional and international mobility. Travelers moving throughout the state will connect to local transit and commuter service to reach their final destinations, reducing the need to add more highway trips through a state that is home to six of the ten most congested metropolitan areas in the nation. A recent study by the Texas Transportation Institute found Californians consumed more than 38 million gallons of fuel while stuck in traffic last year.
California is one of thirty-two states across the U.S. and the District of Columbia that are laying the foundation for high-speed rail corridors that will link Americans with faster and more energy-efficient travel options. To date, the U.S. Department of Transportation has invested $10.1 billion to put American communities on track towards new and expanded rail access and improved reliability, speed, and frequency of existing service.
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The most jobs created from this construction will be in Hollywood as the film industry will strt cranking out high-speed rail disaster movies one after another.
Yup.The US Transportation Department and California see no reason to spend the money to upgrade freeways, build new segments and upgrade airport runways to handle increased demand.
Instead, they’ll waste a $1 billion dollars laying rail road track for rolling stock that’ll never run on it and which no one will get to ride.
Hey, its only taxpayers money to the tune of $1 billion dollars.
California is beyond stupid!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
Its just cheaper to fly from LA to Fresno. There’s no need for the bullet train to do what air travel can already fulfill cheaper and faster.
I can only conclude Ray LaHood is the dumbest Secretary Of Transportation we’ve ever had!
So people can leave tax heavy California quicker or to help them gamble more in Vegas than with the local Indians?
High speed rail is obsolete 19th technology. Despite the fact no one wants to ride this bullet train, liberals insist on ramming it down Californians’ throats - regardless of whether or not a market demand actually exists for it.
High speed rail is obsolete 19th technology. Despite the fact no one wants to ride this bullet train, liberals insist on ramming it down Californians’ throats - regardless of whether or not a market demand actually exists for it.
Is that a rail line that is operated one way to the border only?
If so, it may be a worthwhile endeavor in the long run.
No - its for track in the middle of nowhere between two rural towns with no population to speak of - unless you count the inmates at the state prison in Corcoran! Truly the bullet train to nowhere!
Heh
No - its for track in the middle of nowhere between two rural towns with no population to speak of - unless you count the inmates at the state prison in Corcoran! Truly the bullet train to nowhere!
Heh
Like He!!. If anything, California's population will decline. People and businesses are leaving CA like rats deserting a sinking ship. And speaking of sinking...
Like He!!. If anything, California's population will decline. People and businesses are leaving CA like rats deserting a sinking ship. And speaking of sinking...
Sorry for the double post. The 503 errors are troublesome.
Sorry for the double post. The 503 errors are troublesome.
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