Posted on 10/15/2018 5:08:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The only high speed rail w ended is LA to vegas. The 15 isa parking lot two days week. They added lanes around Barstow still full.
Burbank to Barstow. Ontario to Barstow Barstow to began one line. Gambling on board to offset costs. Hotel taxes in Vegas or just pay as you go.
WE NEED IS LA TO VEGAS
Nevada has mostly been Californicated.
Ok, if they stop High Speed Rail they stop the Hunger Games.
You know the people will not go for that, not for a minute.
Hey! Why not build a canal from LA to Vegas? Make it big! Then they can have cruise boats on the waterway and gamble all the way to and from. Pay for it with a drag on every pot.
Looks like a train wreck to me!
Then they would welcome a high speed train. The issue is money. Cal has casinos. I don’t have to get in line on friday afternoon to go bumper to bumper to Vegas. Vegas wants me to come to vegas. basic supply and demand.
May want too stick to web site ownership. : )
Translation: "We need to come up with new bullsh!t to sell this slow-rolling turd."
BULLET BILL
Send each working Californian a fancy, official looking, copy of the their share of the bill for their Bullet Train!
Including ...
o They personally may never use the train.
o $Dollars they themselves have AREADY paid.
o $Dollars they CURRENTLY pay.
And ...
o $Dollars they WILL pay.
ALREADY
They’d get it done cheaper and more honestly than moonbeam is even capable of imagining.
I have an idea that should work instead of high-speed rail to Las Vegas! Let’s build a bunch of airports in the LA basin and a big airport in Vegas and have a lot of flights daily, plus have really cheap car rentals in Vegas! Heck, something like that might even work between the SF Bay Area and LA!
why do tens of thousands of people drive to vegas? if a method pays for itself, why do you care?
Yes, in the twenty-first century, they are pushing a return to nineteenth century transportation. And this is not a high speed rail line. Well, they say it is but it will be the world's slowest high speed train. And finally the costs have risen to astronomical, over $100 billion estimated last I saw.
Brown will finally be gone in January. Who is the front runner to replace him? Newsome?
how come no $$$ figures are mentioned?
26 Sept: Reason: Can California Conservatives Kill the High-Speed Rail Boondoggle?
A ballot initiative planned for 2020 would let voters kill the overbudgeted, underfunded, behind-schedule monstrosity.
by Scott Shackford
When we last took note of the bullet train, everything was spiraling out of control. Costs had ballooned up to at least $77 billion (three times what citizens were told when they approved a bond for the project a decade ago) and delays have pushed the opening all the way back to 2033. It’s a disaster that Gov. Jerry Brown insists on defending as some sort of legacy...
https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/26/can-california-conservatives-kill-the-hi
15 Oct: Sacramento Bee: Should California’s next governor scrap high-speed rail?
By Dan Schnur
Janet Napolitano – President, University of California
The high speed rail project, when complete, could be a marked improvement in California’s transportation infrastructure etc...
Linda Ackerman – President, Marian Bergeson Excellence in Public Service Series
Scrap it!...
In 2014 the state legislators decided to appropriate a 25 percent share of the state’s annual (”carbon”) cap and trade revenue to the train. The income from two years of this income returned about $900 million vs. the approximately $1.8 billion they expected. That appropriation has been extended through 2030...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/influencers/article219943090.html
How else can those on CA welfare spend most of their time in LV, yet manage to get back to the trough efficiently and quickly...
Low speed, high drag...
WE voted for the Browndoggle twice. I however voted no. The market for LA to vegas is well established just drive the I-15 freeway.
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