Every election cycle we'll hear how a candidate will guarantee that s/he will make the trains run on time...
They want to run 20 trains / hour on the SF Peninsula — one every 3 minutes. 8 will be the new bullet trains and 12 electrified CalTrain commuter trains. The noise is going to be incessant here and is on top of the new flight routes to SFO that put all SFO bound traffic right over Palo Alto. People are hopping mad here and discovering the fedgov doesn’t give a sh!t about them.
Let it serve as the Mt Rushmore of California Idiocy commemorating the stupidity and corruption of ‘leaders’ that have led this state to the brink of disaster.
What’s the carbon footprint of this project uhhh boondoggle?
and will it stomp out stupid or will we have to wait for a Big One to hit to do that? and even then..
original ballot measure:
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1A,_High-Speed_Rail_Act_%282008%29
Lord have mercy what a colossal waste of money.
Desal plants instead would be a wiser way to spend that money.
Mr and Mrs Feinstein say thanks.
The Wright brothers are spinning in their graves in sync with the founding fathers. There’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on.
If by likely they mean inevitabley, guaranteed, positively, inescapably, assuredly, predestined...........
Maybe they could find shortcuts to save money. Use the experience of Seattle with Bertha. /sar
Got to have bullet trains to get from one “Region” to the other, The Wildlands Project was finally completed so over 75% of the land is now off limits and of course to get the Participants to The Hunger Games on time.
The future is on the way.
Wonder where choo-choo Willie is in all of that?
He MUST be involved in the planning!
They won’t allow tracking for fear of causing earthquakes but they are building huge tunnels through fault lines?
It’s highly unlikely this thing will actually be completed as California is much more likely to go bankrupt before then.
Look at how the bay bridge project went.
The DemonRats never saw a bloated budget-busting train project that they didn’t like.
I ain’t riding the dang thing, period. Let the bond holders go suck mud.