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Posted on 04/10/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by jessduntno
The report noted that "the Bakersfield to Palmdale section includes a variety of constraints that pose significant technical and environmental challenges, including seismic faults, steep grades through the Tehachapi Mountains and flood plains." The route could require as many as 59 grade separations for highways.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Keep the right-of-ways empty until the project is feasible in 100 years-maybe 50.
Just cancel the damned thing. We don’t need a Jerry Brown legacy. Nobody in their right mind needs to remember him.
A terrorist target if there ever was one, and after the first attack, no one will want to ride on the thing.
A horrendously obscene waste of money.
But hey, it furthers the utopian socialist dream.
The only area where a bullet train makes any bit of sense in this country is the Northeast Corridor.
One plan takes it through Reno and Tahoe./s
The UN Agenda 21 bullet-train slush-fund black-hole will never die.
Currently, if you drive...it’s about 95 minutes.
So, we climb on the train at Bakersfield, and get to Palmdale in 16 minutes....then what? I realize a bunch of folks are all charged up, but do I have to rent some car at Palmdale to get where I need to go in town, on top of the $100 round-trip ticket?
It would be different if industry in Bakersfield was hooked up with a lightrail, and you could climb off at one of five stations and walk into your office....allowing you to live way out in the boonies (like it works in Germany or Netherlands). But things aren’t designed that way in the US.
High speed rail is like global warming, ITS A SCAM BABY
Now they are talking about rerouting through Burbank on standard Metrolink rails, which, of course, means it will not be traveling at high speeds for the last 20 miles. We can call it the (Mostly) High Speed Rail System. Then of course, the fact they will be boring through one of our major fault lines to come down the grade in the Northeast Valley...what a cluster #$%$ this is. The train will probably not be water friendly, so when the pipes burst all over the valley and shut it down, it will be come the (occasionally NO) Speed Train.
Is this bullet train going through the central valley farming area? I was wondering if the environmentalist’s shutting down the damn was a way to drive the farmers out of business so that so that the land can be bought cheap for the bullet train project.
You know, if they were intent on building the darned thing, the only route that actually makes any sense whatsoever is straight down the 5. They could always add connecting routes later.
But of course that makes too much sense.
I’d like to see it go from the planning stages to a spot behind his own wallet.
At a high speed
The LAT tries to put lipstick on it, but the foolishness of the plan shows through...
For example, each of the three possible paths from Palmdale to Burbank through the rugged San Gabriels would require up to 24 miles of tunnels as deep as 2,000 feet below the surface, one report says. The tunnels would be about four miles longer than earlier indicated.
One of the routes would require a single tunnel of nearly 17 miles that would cut through geologically complex shattered rock and fault zones. Another would displace as many 918 homes, while yet another alternative would displace 87 homes. But the vibration and noise, the report said, would affect many more.
The Burbank-to-Los Angeles section has two possible options, both using an existing Metrolink right of way.
I have yet to meet the Californian who really wants to ride it (more than once, that is.) Some hopefully expect OTHERS to ride it, which qualifies as research in Cali.
As RR suggests above, the alleged "Bullet Train" is an uber swindle of global warming proportions.
Bernie Madoff would be proud.
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Leadership of losers. Sacramento is like a miniature D.C. where mentally ill leftist and deceiving deviates run the show.
“24 miles of tunnel.”
Somebody Best have a little read of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
This is all the result of moonbeam wanting a legacy, it couldn't have been a network of desalination plants and increased reservoir capacity, with perhaps increased aquifer recharging with purified wastewater, things that would have a long term positive impact. No moonbeam requires a failure of monumental monetary waste for his legacy, the same legacy he has left behind in every single position he has held in California.
“You know, if they were intent on building the darned thing, the only route that actually makes any sense whatsoever is straight down the 5.”
Sitting down? They considered this, but decided that it might “bifurcate the communities” it ran through, creating “social and economical unfairness.”
You can figure that out, let me know!
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