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2019-02-13 Home Front: Culture Wars
Calif will abandon LA to SF HSR but complete Bakersfield to Merced
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Posted by lord garth 2019-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Merced is worth a visit, just because it's a gateway to Yosemite: nobody would actually stay in Merced. Bakersfield is worthwhile a few weeks each year (I'm being generous), if you are into flowers. There are only a few photographers into the flowers. So, basically, it's a HSR for photographers, who can generally find their own way to their destinations. Good investment.
Posted by Beau 2019-02-13 01:29||   2019-02-13 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 And, without a green path to either Bakersfield or Merced, from anywhere, and minimal traffic between the two cities, I'm not getting how a green path between the two makes things so much better.
Posted by Beau 2019-02-13 01:45||   2019-02-13 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 "It robs unionized prison guards and Aztlan citizens of a future they already paid for with their votes..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-13 01:49||   2019-02-13 01:49|| Front Page Top

#4 I ad to look that one up, seems something like this? Kaliphornia ?
Posted by Beau 2019-02-13 01:57||   2019-02-13 01:57|| Front Page Top

#5 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/08/apropos-california-state-assembly-votes-to-make-communism-great-again/
Posted by Beau 2019-02-13 01:58||   2019-02-13 01:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Finishing this segment is a fig leaf for what a POS scam this always was. No ridership revenue, no private investment, just a make-work graft vanity for Brown
Posted by Frank G 2019-02-13 06:52||   2019-02-13 06:52|| Front Page Top

#7 “I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump,”

Should be a "dog whistle" for the entire GOP caucus to claw the money back.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-13 07:34||   2019-02-13 07:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Rail subsidies accrue to the cost of land near the station.

I'll bet the insiders bought land near those stations.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-13 08:50||   2019-02-13 08:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Not to forget the terrorist threat of blowing up rail or sabotaging in a remote or not so remote area. I suspect the cost to monitor this land travel over air pretty spendy.
Posted by Jan 2019-02-13 09:23||   2019-02-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 That's not very "Green New Deal" of him. AOC unavailable for non-sequitur comment.
Posted by Warthog 2019-02-13 09:55||   2019-02-13 09:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Who wants to go to San Francisco anyway? Ick.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-13 12:47||   2019-02-13 12:47|| Front Page Top

#12 I went to San Francisco, once.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-02-13 15:29||   2019-02-13 15:29|| Front Page Top

#13 I am amazed at how awfully bad they did this. The Chinese have thousands of miles of wonderful high speed railway. It's like going from A-B at half the speed of a jet, but no turbulence! It's a wonderful way to travel. No American Engineers could copy Chinese products? I doubt that. Maybe no government MBA's could manage a project? I think that's more likely.
Posted by Beau 2019-02-13 19:25||   2019-02-13 19:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Amazing what can happen when you shut the bean counters out of the meetings.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-13 21:37||   2019-02-13 21:37|| Front Page Top

#15 #13 - Prevailing wage = food and no "eating the peanut"
Posted by Frank G 2019-02-13 21:58||   2019-02-13 21:58|| Front Page Top

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