Just for fun, go get a Google Earth pic of Southern California, and look at the population centers between San Diego and San Francisco. It is essentially one big massive urban area that would be completely bypassed by a high speed rail link between those two endpoints.
Is there really enough rail traffic between Sand Diego and San Francisco to warrant that kind of investment??
What happened to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi’s high speed rail project between Disneyland and Las Vegas?? Did they send Ahnold a copy of that memo??
If there are other stops planned, then how “high speed” can it really be??
Compared to daily jet service between those two cities, which is cheaper, faster, more fuel efficient, less of a carbon footprint, produces les CO2, etc, etc, etc,...??
Since Kally-Fornea doesn’t have two red cents to rub together, just where will they get the money to build and operate this marvel??
Since the ChiComms and the Japanese aren’t buying our debt any more, don’t tell me that the Federal Government is going to pay for this marvel either.
BTW, there's an older Freeway that connects a lot of points in Southern LA county, and Northern Orange county called CA 91, or Artesia Freeway. It would be possible to DOUBLE the highway capacity here by widening 10 or so overpasses about 20 feet.
The energy savings available from eliminating 8 hours a day of traffic jams on this one highway should be enormous.
A "bullet train" would not benefit anyone currently using Artesia!