Whoever wrote this should be fired. There is a direct rail route from LA to San Fran. It’s called the Starlight Express and it’s run by another money losing Government boondoggle called Amtrak.
I can’t help but think of the mess a derailing at 200mph would make when I see these things going full speed in news clips.
And not just the potential for accidents, they seem to me to make one hell of a target.
If you’re bent on bringing down a plane, you’ve gotta get you or your device onto the thing. With these trains, getting access to any point on hundreds of miles of track could produce similar results.
I just want to know where are they going to get the 6 billion?
Our state is broke; who are they going to rob, who are they going to mug. I spent the last 23 years I was employed dealing with 1 to 5 year budget requests and projections to operate my department. I know how to fudge the numbers and I know how to spend towards the end of the budget cycle. As a dumb old just a high school graduate; even I know what a zero based budget is and how to calculate it, and I know how to balance a check book.
They don’t want the train. They want the grant money.
What happens to a loaded train at 220 mph in a serious earthquake?
Inquiring minds wonder....
California’s broke. The whole train thing makes them look like fools.
Not so fast sheeple. You forget that once in operation the TSA will exercise it’s right to inspect! Get there 2 hours early, pass thru the scanners, get felt up and groped, and then board your train after the baggage inspectors have stolen everything of value out of your luggage. Cost, about the same as the plane after a trillion or so in subsidies from the feds. Think you’ll take the train and skip the pain of the plane .... forget it!
$728 per INCH of track.
What’s the problem? This has “shovel ready” written all over it.
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The trains will go up to 220 miles per hour, but will NEVER average that speed. There are intermediate stops between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The trains will be slowing down and speeding up numerous times. They will be lucky to average 100 miles per hour.
Where is the power coming from to run these trains? Electricity. Where is all that electrical power going to come from? The few riders are going to be paying a very small fraction of the operating costs. Guess who is paying for most of it . . . the tax payers!