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California High-Speed Rail Proposes Controversial Burbank-to-Palmdale Route
breitbart ^ | 09/21/2018 | Chriss W Street

Posted on 09/21/2018 4:30:27 PM PDT by DFG

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) surprised local communities on Wednesday by proposing a controversial Burbank-to-Palmdale route featuring above-ground tracks. The Los Angeles Times reported that the proposed 38-mile track alignment will cross the San Gabriel Mountains via a series of at grade sections and five separate tunnels.

The bullet train’s original route, offered in support of the SB 1856 bond measure passed by the California Legislature in 2000, proposed to follow the Interstate 5 Freeway and tunnel under the 4,144 ft-Tejon Pass to link Los Angeles and Bakersfield.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; bullshittrain; burbank; california; gavinnewsom; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; highspeedrail; hsr; palmdale; rail; sacramento; sandiego; tajmahal; traintonowhere; whiteelephant; williegreen; williegreenexpress
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To: Spok

This IS the Boston BIG DIG of CA.!!!


21 posted on 09/21/2018 4:56:16 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: DFG

Its a scam to support their scams


22 posted on 09/21/2018 5:06:51 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ptsal

They tried. Nice long runway out there. Might happen some day.

Around 2218


23 posted on 09/21/2018 5:07:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DFG

Oh boy - spend more money we don’t have. Brown is toally nuts.


24 posted on 09/21/2018 5:11:09 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: DFG

There is already a metro style rail going to Palmdale/Lancaster from the south. Prolly not a whole lot slower than the high speed train.


25 posted on 09/21/2018 5:20:29 PM PDT by umgud
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...follow the Interstate 5 Freeway and tunnel under the 4,144 ft-Tejon Pass to link Los Angeles and Bakersfield.

If they want to avoid the steep grade up to Lebec from Bakersfield and then down to Castaic, they are going to have to tunnel about 25 miles!

They must be smoking a lot of recreational weed, because this project just keeps setting new "highs" in stupidity.

26 posted on 09/21/2018 5:22:47 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: avital2
"who goes from Burbank to Palmdale..."

.... People that live in the affordable desert and commute to L.A. ..... And Gang Members would love the easy ride .....

27 posted on 09/21/2018 5:27:10 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: umgud

It is veerrrrrrry slow.


28 posted on 09/21/2018 5:29:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DFG

Why is it controversial?

There already are commuter trains which are used because a lot of people live up that way and work in LA, and this is a route that could actually serve people.


29 posted on 09/21/2018 5:30:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: avital2

“who goes from Burbank to Palmdale? yikes.”

People commuting to work.


30 posted on 09/21/2018 5:31:17 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: beethovenfan

“...Oh boy - spend more money we don’t have. Brown is toally nuts....”

The concept of having money BEFORE you can spend it has totally vanished in DemocRAT Taxifornia. These Marxist maniacs live in a space warp that has nothing to do with reality. Just a bubble kingdom of power and control.


31 posted on 09/21/2018 5:32:35 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Pelham
Afroman 'Palmdale' (2000)

Fo' sho'! I was makin' crazy dough.

Shoulda dropped outta school a long time ago.
Bought a cell phone, like a nut.
Now I deliver like Pizza Hut.
I drunk whisky and Bacardi.
I sold dope to anybody.
Me and my homies sold dubs and dimes, took turns bustin' rhymes just to pass the time.
A white man drove up to my spot.
He said, ¡°Hey, homeboy, what you got?
I put a fat rock inside his hand
About 25 sheriffs jumped out the van.
(Get down, punk.)

Palmdale, (Hell, yeah) come back to me.
I need you and I love you, baby.
Palmdale, come back to me. (check it out, check it out, check it out.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWylUZub5KM

 

32 posted on 09/21/2018 5:39:01 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

good find!


33 posted on 09/21/2018 5:42:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 78% of CaliforniaÂ’s population in 1970 to 38.0% in 2015)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m in Bakersfield, my brother San Diego. About 15 years ago(?) we met in Lancaster for a funeral. He took that train. I don’t remember whether it was and is slow.

I drove to Burbank and took that train to a NASCAR race in Ontario. It was super slow.


34 posted on 09/21/2018 5:56:53 PM PDT by umgud
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To: samadams2000

Supertrain.


35 posted on 09/21/2018 5:58:18 PM PDT by wally_bert (Ravioli. I want ravioli followed by ravioli. I like ravioli.)
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To: ifinnegan
"People commuting to work."

Metrolink already serves the route. HSR was supposed to connect LA and SF, not be a redundant suburban commuter line. Kill it already.

36 posted on 09/21/2018 6:01:09 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Pelham

Ben Jr met him a few years back. Said he was ok. But definitely a stoner.


37 posted on 09/21/2018 6:02:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DFG

so they’re going to try to hide the billiondollar boondoggle behind a 38 mile stretch of old southern pacific tracks?


38 posted on 09/21/2018 6:05:56 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: wally_bert

>>>Supertrain<<<

No, Bigbus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpBGsFddao


39 posted on 09/21/2018 6:06:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Another classic movie starring a lot of people who are better than the crowd today.


40 posted on 09/21/2018 6:09:19 PM PDT by wally_bert (Ravioli. I want ravioli followed by ravioli. I like ravioli.)
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