Posted on 05/05/2024 12:43:32 PM PDT by george76
“$11 BILLION for that? That’s a crime against humanity.”
Not exactly ...
11 Billion for THAT. Even Tony Soprono’s crew could have done it for 1% of that including the graft.
Could have had a maglev
“I’ll note there are no train tracks on this slab of concrete...
actually, it’s not even a slab: you can bands of light coming through the deck:
Just for reference, the section of the Tohoku Shinkansen in Japan from Omiya to Morioka is roughly 30% shorter than the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Construction begin in 1975 and was completed and operational a mere seven years later.
Sounds like Boss Tweed and his “modest” Courthouse. At lest the courthouse was finished at sixty times the original estimated cost to build.
How can it be permissible?
They've compromised all principles
That kind of theft is mythical
It's anything but typical
It's a craze Dems endorse, money's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
The promises used to sound good to me, but now I find them
simply resistible
simply resistible
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
China’s high-speed rail network had reached 45,000 kilometers — or just under 28,000 miles
Surely there are some random zeros floating around in the money value.
And after sanity returns to California, if ever, these unconnected structures shall be known as . . .
RAILHENGE!!!
What the hell is that? It goes nowhere. It’s a freakin’ pier
Whats the magnetic heading of it? If its close to 34-16 then yeah it would be pretty dependable. Put up an air sock and entry/exit ramps and parking, fuel, tiedowns...and a strip club across the street.
What could be done is to have ‘bullet’ railway cars.
A bridge would only have to support one car at a time.
Cars could come from various points such as say Ventura and Santa Ana, meet at a passenger tranfer point, and then go off to say Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, etc.
This distributed system would better serve huge metropolitan areas and would be less vulnerable to terrorist track sabotage.
I rode a high speed train (250kph) in Spain. It was a nice trip.
“With a price tag of just €17.7 million per kilometre, Spain’s construction expenses for high-speed rail remain well below the €45.5 million incurred by other high-speed rail nations.”
[I noticed no publication date.]
https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/147158/spanish-high-speed-rail/
Here are different pictures of the 101/280/680 interchange in San Jose.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/295196950563804431/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/113223378125859431/
In California, mountain ranges make construction difficult. That’s probably why California is doing the easier Central Valley (?) part.
They could have mounded up dirt for most of the way for far less.
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