[jessduntno]

Thank goodness. We can finally get to Bakersfield from Palmdale in a hurry. Because that's what we really need, instead of rebuilding the crumbling pipes that let go every other day, flooding huge swaths of downtown intersections and creating chaos.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Keep the right-of-ways empty until the project is feasible in 100 years-maybe 50.

[rockinqsranch]

Just cancel the damned thing. We don’t need a Jerry Brown legacy. Nobody in their right mind needs to remember him.

[Ronald_Magnus]

A terrorist target if there ever was one, and after the first attack, no one will want to ride on the thing.

[headstamp 2]

A horrendously obscene waste of money.

But hey, it furthers the utopian socialist dream.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

The only area where a bullet train makes any bit of sense in this country is the Northeast Corridor.

[Don Corleone]

One plan takes it through Reno and Tahoe./s

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The UN Agenda 21 bullet-train slush-fund black-hole will never die.

[pepsionice]

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.

[ronnie raygun]

High speed rail is like global warming, ITS A SCAM BABY

[jcon40]

I’d like to see it go from the planning stages to a spot behind his own wallet.

At a high speed

[dragnet2]

Leadership of losers. Sacramento is like a miniature D.C. where mentally ill leftist and deceiving deviates run the show.

[Mastador1]

I see a real problem with a Bakersfield to Anaheim route, all the one way tickets from Bakersfield to Anaheim with no tickets from Anaheim to Bakersfield. Not there was a chance of profitability to begin with but I would think it impossible carrying passengers in only one direction. And how is Anaheim to cope with the influx of people that won't go back?

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.

[Kickass Conservative]

The Bullet Train was a Ballot Measure that the CA Voters Approved. Jerry Brown is just doing his Duty as King.

I think we should push a Ballot Initiative requiring everyone has a Solar Powered Flying Car paid for by the State of CA.

[mosesdapoet]

Bet some or most of the routing could be have been done using existing median xway strips similar to how Chicago uses its subway lines. But nobody makes any money off of that when they do it that way.

[DoughtyOne]