Posted on 05/19/2023 7:47:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/21/2023 12:23:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ummmm, a DemonRat money-laundering machine sort of like Biden's fake LLC's but with a lot more dirt.
The WINNER gets an evening with Nancy Pelosi?? What do they do to the loser?
I don’t think I want to play.
--"Ozymandias," by Percy Shelley
the cousin of the big dig
Second prize, two evenings with Pelosi. Third prize, three evenings with Pelosi.....
You wouldn’t have to get her drunk if you wanted to take advantage of her. She comes pre-drunk.
You would have to be drunk, too, though.
That section is about 260 miles long via hwy 99. It takes about 2.5 hours to drive, depending on car and driver.
If one were to take a high speed rail from Bakersfield to Merced, here's what it might entail...
1. Buy a ticket (won't be cheap, even if subsidized)
2. Drive to HSR station, and park (and pay for parking), and check bags
3. Go through security
4. Board and ride train for 260 miles (if the train was not late. Most likely, the train is running late. Trains are so frequently late.)
5. Get luggage
6. Rent a car or obtain a Taxi.
So, to take the "bullet train", a prospective rider would pay more, much much more, for a trip that would take longer, perhaps hours (days?) longer .
And, taking a few steps back, we can see why no one, save for some hopeless lefty train romantics and some obedient Dem serfs, would ever consider taking the unfortunately mis-named "high speed" rail.
Something else to consider, Bakersfield and Merced (which are very nice in their special ways) are not vacation or visitation centers of the once Golden State. The folks wanting to travel between the two destinations comprise a remarkably select group.
Two evenings and one night with Nancy!
I recall something about the contact being awarded to the engineering firm Tutor-Perini which was partially owned then by Richard Blum, the husband of Diane Finestein.
It is really too bad this failed, that the concept was crippled by the government, corrupt, and filled with lies. The idea of a high speed rail line is great—but why not build it in the median and right of ways of the freeways, already public land? And why not legislatively exempt it from the state’s environmental laws, specifically the red tape? And why is it that government-run construction is too often under estimated and over budget and always late?
Ah but which Pelosi? :)
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This is supposed to solve the Global Warming problem.
But, by 2030, we will be all dead.
High speed rail is like the big dig in “mass of two shitz” Tax payer money used for other things like supporting invaders and social programs
They’ll be shuffling the invaders and homeless around on the DemoRat trains to glory. With LA and SF turning into deeper shades of sheet holes there will be less viable passengers to pay for keeping up the expensive boondoggle. They will tax it with subsidies but the golden goose has flown away.
This is nothing compared to the solar powered train to Hawaii AOC’s new green deal would have built. I figure the taxpayers would end up a couple of trillion in for only ten feet of track.
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