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California Going Ahead With Bullet Train
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."
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.
Om, nomnomnom...
Damn the reality! Full speed ahead!
The tax and spend express is getting ready to leave the station!
Is there a chance the track could bend?
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.
And they just able to shoot them and get on with it, maybe that can work again..
California is a walking bankruptcy, and they are doing this? To what? Help people leave as fast as possible?
Yes sir, there's nothin' on Earth like a bona fide, genuine, electified six-car monorail. What'd I say?
You can object to TSA practices
"Willkommen to the Police States of Amerika.
Your papers, schnell!"
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.
Where did they even find that hypercubic land?
You have your cause and effect reversed.
Something tells me that the state government of California isn't particularly interested in building a railroad for Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
You are forgetting the 'when'
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
This fucking place has really gone downhill. It's like the Huffington Post, except more arrogant.