Walk around and ask a thousand residents of LA...if they have some urgent need to get to San Jose in thirty minutes. I’m guessing that fifty percent will admit they’ve only been to San Jose once in their life, and another forty-eight percent will admit that it’d be nice but when you quote the price of $170 round-trip....per person....well, it’s not worth that.
It’ll destroy political trust for decades....if they build this and six months after opening....there’s less than twenty people every six hours....who ride the bullet train.
Do they know the way to San Jose?
“It’ll destroy political trust for decades....if they build this and six months after opening....there’s less than twenty people every six hours....who ride the bullet train.”
Based on the initial plan for service from Bakersfield to Fresno, the only people who would want (or need) to ride the thing would be the illegal Mexican farmworkers. But even then, since it wouldn’t be stopping, they would probably find it both unusable as well as unaffordable. Brown is simply looking for a “legacy” to leave with his political “career,” and that legacy looks like a mountain of debt for a white elephant railroad.
Oh come on, you know there'll be more people riding. /s
They'll give subsidies to illegals and select people to ride it (and our taxes will cover them). Just like every other public transit boondoggle, taxes will cover the majority of operating costs. Those $170 tickets won't cost that much for a bunch of riders. For you and me, the real actual costs will be much higher!