California Going Ahead With Bullet Train 709
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the NY Times:
"[California state leaders] have rallied around a plan to build a 520-mile high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, cutting the trip from a six-hour drive to a train ride of two hours and 38 minutes. And they are doing it in the face of what might seem like insurmountable political and fiscal obstacles. The pro-train constituency has not been derailed by a state report this month that found the cost of the bullet train tripling to $98 billion for a project that would not be finished until 2033, by news that Republicans in Congress are close to eliminating federal high-speed rail financing this year, by opposition from California farmers and landowners upset about tracks tearing through their communities or by questions about how much the state or private businesses will be able to contribute."
Re:The bond measure was for $98 billion (Score:2, Funny)
Shh. You're going to point out that throwing money into a large barrel and burning it, then repeating the process for every entitlement project is a good idea.
Why are businesses leaving? (Score:0, Funny)
Damn the reality! Full speed ahead!
The tax and spend express is getting ready to leave the station!
Monorail (Score:4, Funny)
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Re:Monorail (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Forget about it. (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah but no, but yeah. But no.
build a 520 mile-high speed rail
it gives great views from up that far - plus the pumping music and free drugs is certainly something I'd get behind.
Re:Time (Score:5, Funny)
BROKE AS A JOKE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This will never work. (Score:2, Funny)
Yes sir, there's nothin' on Earth like a bona fide, genuine, electified six-car monorail. What'd I say?
Re:And exaggeration can ruin anything (Score:5, Funny)
You can object to TSA practices
"Willkommen to the Police States of Amerika.
Your papers, schnell!"
Re:But but but (Score:2, Funny)
I thought private space combined with 3D printing was going to revolutionize everything? I was thinking private 3D printed sub-orbital transports, flights leaving every half hour, FILLED with people!
That's an interesting point. Could SpaceX build a reusable suborbital launcher which could fly the same distance for less than the train?
My guess would be yes, given how ludicrously expensive this railroad is going to be.
Re:Why are businesses leaving? (Score:5, Funny)
U.S. out of California!
Re:Monorail (Score:3, Funny)
What about us brain-dead slobs?
Re:Why are businesses leaving? (Score:5, Funny)
As a proud native Californian, I say get the fuck out. You probably took that job from a Californian because you are cheap, and now you're just one of those inbred, cornfed assholes driving up the property costs. ... or, as the rest of the country says, "Welcome!"
Re:Time (Score:5, Funny)
Where did they even find that hypercubic land?
Re:The reason people don't travel by train in the (Score:2, Funny)
You have your cause and effect reversed.
Re:Portland-Seattle-Vancouver would make more sens (Score:5, Funny)
Something tells me that the state government of California isn't particularly interested in building a railroad for Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
Re:Why are businesses leaving? (Score:4, Funny)
No kiddin. They *still* haven't finished that bridge over Eastwood Ravine. Maybe by 2015.
Re:Time (Score:5, Funny)
This hypervolume takes into account the time it took to build the railroad from the reference frame perspective of a traveler waiting for it to be built (at rest, thus) so as to be able to take the train
Huffington Post (Score:2, Funny)
This fucking place has really gone downhill. It's like the Huffington Post, except more arrogant.