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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."
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?
You can object to TSA practices
"Willkommen to the Police States of Amerika.
Your papers, schnell!"
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.
U.S. out of California!
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!"
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.
No kiddin. They *still* haven't finished that bridge over Eastwood Ravine. Maybe by 2015.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
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.