Democrats:
This particular train and any other High Speed Rail projects that get started are destined to be gigantic failures should they ever get completed....
I wouldn’t put it past liberals in California, but the only way these trains work financially is to stop people from driving or make flying so expensive so that train travel is the only viable option....
If you want to travel between LA and SFO, I would imagine a plane leaves every 20-30 minutes in both directions and takes a little over an hour to arrive.
Take a high speed train and stop 10-15 times between the two cities and it will take a few hours and not have anywhere near the number of departures.....
Democrats:
A few years ago I had to go between Detroit and Baltimore every couple weeks.
It was a 90 minute flight, 9-10 hour drive, 17 hours by Amtrak or 22 hours by Greyhound.
The reason was that I had to take a new job and it took several months to sell the house. I drove home every couple weekends to see my wife and kids.
We didn’t really have any money to speak of so driving was the way to go.
If you want to travel between LA and SFO, I would imagine a plane leaves every 20-30 minutes in both directions and takes a little over an hour to arrive.
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I suspect that for the cost of that RR, one could fly everyone from LA - SF - LA every day for, say, 50 years, maybe longer.
Meanwhile, RR probably won’t be finished for 50 years.