Posted on 12/29/2014 5:01:34 PM PST by george76
Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthornewho claims to be an unabashed supporter of high-speed railreviews Anaheims new train station and finds it oddly antiseptic. Hawthorne doesnt care that taxpayers spent $2,764 per square foot for what is essentially a big glass tent. He is a little disturbed that the design is so dysfunctional that train passengers exit onto an uncovered platform, take the elevator or stairs [up] to a pedestrian bridge, and then enter the building at its highest interior level only to have to go back down again to get to ground level.
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While Hawthornes critique is pretty negative, it is also naive. He thinks that reducing Californias reliance on the automobile is going to require architectural as well as infrastructural leaps of faith. Sorry, even the most perfect architectural design wont overcome rails inherent disadvantages over the convenience of cars and the low cost of flying.
France is discovering this.
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The low end of the latest (meaning three-years-old) estimated cost of building exclusive high-speed rail tracks from Anaheim to San Francisco is $98.5 billion, which works out to about $3,000 per inch. By 2040, when the system might be completed if funds were available, which they arent, this cost is certain to rise even more.
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The proposed Fresno-Madera line is being built through a rural valley and doesnt have a built-in captive market.”
WRONG! Illegal Mexican farmworkers are the “built-in market!” The train will be busy only during harvest season.
Are you trying to hurt their feelings by talking bad about their pride and joy metrolink trains? I actually think we should take a different approach for all these boondoggles.
We should embrace them, and require ALL Public Employees in the State to use nothing but Public Transportation to and from their respective workplaces, No Taxpayer Owned Drive Home Vehicles either.
I saw this building while coming home from a Ducks game—it’s across the street from the Honda Center. As we drove along Route 57 and saw the actual train platform, we wondered what the hell was inside the building.
Oui, my FRiend, and this would be on a fast day, eh?
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Captive market is illegals.
It’s meant to move people from Mexico around.
“WRONG! Illegal Mexican farmworkers are the built-in market! The train will be busy only during harvest season.”
Yeah.
You are the only one who’s also seen the obvious.
Why do people think it’s going through the Central Valley?
I knew it wouldn’t happen because it makes
Sense and requires very little tax payer money
Wrote a letter to brown two years ago. Not even a standard reply
Ps common sense has no lobbyist
It was good enough for Dagny Taggert. Her train went 250MPH! And it was built on time and and budget.
There’s an effort already underway to build that line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Railway_Express
Thanx
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