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It IS the middle of nowhere. A bunch of itinerant illegal mexican farm workers aren't going to take a bullet train the Fresno. What idiots the CA communists are.
Any surprise.............Amtrak is government-rail and it loses money year-after-year.
Highways don't entirely pay for themselves either. Here in Texas, our "fiscally conservative" government can't seem to find the money to build to keep up with the population so we pay gas taxes AND toll roads.
It IS the middle of nowhere. A bunch of itinerant illegal mexican farm workers aren't going to take a bullet train the Fresno. What idiots the CA communists are.
Can you try and be less ignorant please? This line is supposed to connect 30 million people. I realize in meth and hydrocodone filled rural America it's hard to comprehend building something that would affect so many people.
But we know that is almost always the case. This one is a special case of failure.
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California’s $64 Billion Bullet Train To Nowhere Gets Delayed … Again
This project is more about people getting paid than about getting people from place to place.
Considering the a good part of the Interstate Highway System is in the middle of nowhere, I don't think this qualifies as a failure. With that said, I'd rather fly between LA and SF.
Here's some information that is not exactly classified: Japan National Railways successfully built a High Speed Rail line in 1964. It is still running, at speeds faster than the proposed line in California. Other nations have HSR. Why can't we?
Here's some information that is not exactly classified: Japan National Railways successfully built a High Speed Rail line in 1964. It is still running, at speeds faster than the proposed line in California. Other nations have HSR. Why can't we?
Have you been to Japan? I just got back and rode their trains. The answer is population density. They have it, we don't. You need population density to justify investment in rail.
Central planning is always limited by the present, known and available. It never anticipates let alone creates anything new.
"High speed rail" stands a very good chance of being the 21 Century's canals: the best transport imaginable until someone invented trains. Hyperloop Evacuated Tube Transport could leave HSR stillborn. It could be 90% cheaper to build than rail and 75% cheaper than freeways. Transportation might need only 2% as much energy.
If we want something different we have to let the visionaries run. If we want more of the same only more expensive, go with the bureaucrats.
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