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re: Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high-speed rail.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 6:26 am to L.A.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 6:26 am to L.A.
Ever taken a train from one state to another? Sure it is fun and it would be cool to be in a super fast modern train, but they make like 20 stops along the way. There’s no point in going super fast if you have to keep stopping between your points of destination. It makes no sense
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Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:13 am to L.A.
I'm about as conservative as one gets. I don't see a problem here. Why not have high-speed rail all over the US? Provide another transportation option other than airlines if you want to go cross country.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:15 am to L.A.
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The Cato Institute
Cringe.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:24 am to AURaptor
Democrat failure will happen everywhere as it happens currently in Cali:
LA Times:
State bullet train delays ‘beyond comprehension,’ contractor says in blistering letter
A letter from a major contractor blames the state for delays in building the bullet train, saying it has not been provided land it needs to work on. (California High Speed Rail Authority)
By RALPH VARTABEDIAN
JAN. 12, 2021 5 AM PT
One of the state’s top bullet train contractors has sent a scorching 36-page letter to California high-speed rail officials, contradicting state claims that the line’s construction pace is on target and warning the project could miss a key 2022 federal deadline.
The letter, obtained by The Times, alleges that a multitude of problems have remained unresolved for years, including rapid turnover of state officials, continuing delays in obtaining land for the rail and the state’s failure to secure agreements with outside parties, including utilities and freight railroads. The delays will result in idled work sites and layoffs of field workers, says the letter, by construction giant Tutor Perini.
As of mid-November, construction teams can not build on more than 500 parcels in the Fresno area because the California High Speed Rail Authority still lacks possession or proper documentation, according to the Jan. 4 letter. The company has completed all the work that could be done efficiently and as a result is now operating at other sites at a slower pace.
“It is beyond comprehension that as of this day, more than two thousand and six hundred calendar days after [official approval to start construction] that the authority has not obtained all of the right of way…” wrote Tutor Perini Vice President of Operations Ghassan Ariqat to Garth Fernandez, the contracting chief at the state rail authority.
Ariqat said his company “anticipates that it will have to lay off a significant number of its field workers in the very near future” and that it has already let 73 field workers go in recent weeks.
The conditions described by the letter jeopardize the project’s long-range goals, because it is already struggling to complete even a portion of its original vision of a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train. The letter indicates that delays and cost overruns are poised to grow worse.
In response, rail authority Chief Executive Brian Kelly essentially dismissed the letter, saying in a statement that it “attempts to set out why project challenges are everybody else’s fault.”
500 PARCELS THAT CANT BE BUILT ON? JEEEESUS! and the Democrat in charge lies like a dog
LA Times:
State bullet train delays ‘beyond comprehension,’ contractor says in blistering letter
A letter from a major contractor blames the state for delays in building the bullet train, saying it has not been provided land it needs to work on. (California High Speed Rail Authority)
By RALPH VARTABEDIAN
JAN. 12, 2021 5 AM PT
One of the state’s top bullet train contractors has sent a scorching 36-page letter to California high-speed rail officials, contradicting state claims that the line’s construction pace is on target and warning the project could miss a key 2022 federal deadline.
The letter, obtained by The Times, alleges that a multitude of problems have remained unresolved for years, including rapid turnover of state officials, continuing delays in obtaining land for the rail and the state’s failure to secure agreements with outside parties, including utilities and freight railroads. The delays will result in idled work sites and layoffs of field workers, says the letter, by construction giant Tutor Perini.
As of mid-November, construction teams can not build on more than 500 parcels in the Fresno area because the California High Speed Rail Authority still lacks possession or proper documentation, according to the Jan. 4 letter. The company has completed all the work that could be done efficiently and as a result is now operating at other sites at a slower pace.
“It is beyond comprehension that as of this day, more than two thousand and six hundred calendar days after [official approval to start construction] that the authority has not obtained all of the right of way…” wrote Tutor Perini Vice President of Operations Ghassan Ariqat to Garth Fernandez, the contracting chief at the state rail authority.
Ariqat said his company “anticipates that it will have to lay off a significant number of its field workers in the very near future” and that it has already let 73 field workers go in recent weeks.
The conditions described by the letter jeopardize the project’s long-range goals, because it is already struggling to complete even a portion of its original vision of a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train. The letter indicates that delays and cost overruns are poised to grow worse.
In response, rail authority Chief Executive Brian Kelly essentially dismissed the letter, saying in a statement that it “attempts to set out why project challenges are everybody else’s fault.”
500 PARCELS THAT CANT BE BUILT ON? JEEEESUS! and the Democrat in charge lies like a dog
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:25 am to L.A.
Can we have windmills on each train buttplug
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:32 am to L.A.
High speed rail?! We all know this is a cover to give tax payer money to some huge Democrat donor.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:33 am to Plx1776
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Back in the 90s, I thought by 2020, we'd have cool flying cars. Here in 2021, we're talking about damn trains
Ayn Rand was a prophet. We are literally seeing Atlas Shrugged play out in front of us...
I've been thinking this since April (when we saw mail in ballots coming due to the fake fluhan paranoia) that the only way the neo-feudalist system to get taken down is if the makers/producers exit the system (and thereby pay no taxes). If feasible, buy land (15+ acres) in a red state and homestead until the government goes bankrupt.
This post was edited on 2/16/21 at 8:36 am
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:33 am to L.A.
IRL conversation with a visitor from England 20 years ago.
Him: 'Zach, I used to wonder why the US didn't use rail instead of cars more. But after being here for a month I can tell that the US is way too big and spread out for rail service efficiency. Cars make sense here.'
Him: 'Zach, I used to wonder why the US didn't use rail instead of cars more. But after being here for a month I can tell that the US is way too big and spread out for rail service efficiency. Cars make sense here.'
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:52 am to papasmurf1269
quote:So Buttplug wants a train run on him. Shocked I am not.
If there’s one thing he knows a lot about it’s probably getting railed
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:55 am to Byrdybyrd05
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I don’t understand the left’s fascination with trains lol
It's the top to bottom corruption. They will leak where the tracks will be built, so their donors can buy of the land cheap before it is common knowledge.
Their donors get the contracts to build the thing, and the politicians get a piece.
It generates a bunch of union jobs to run the things.
And the taxpayers fund it all, guarantee a profit, etc.
The oldest trick in the book - buying your vote with your money. The only real difference between a light rail project and a Mafia racket is that the former is legal.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 9:08 am to NineLineBind
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Get the private sector involved.
This... if it were economical and made sense, the private sector would already be pushing / doing this...
Look at the cluster frick of AmTrack if you want to see what government subsidized rail looks like... Then imagine it at high speeds...
Posted on 2/16/21 at 9:28 am to L.A.
I can’t wait to jump into a confined rail car with a modified Covid mutation.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 9:55 am to JJJimmyJimJames
I live in Fresno. High Speed Rail sucks. It’s a visual blight. It’s extraordinarily slow to be built even where they have the okay to build. We’ve got to be close to 7 or 8 years from when they first broke ground and they still haven’t completed it through the city proper. We”re talking like a 10 mile stretch on flat land alongside a freeway. No hills, valleys or mountains to get in the way. Just existing property that needed demolishing. That’s about as positive as I can be about this boondoggle. If you get into what the state was sold on the cost and see where it is now.. 
then the moral side of using eminent domain to take private property.. it’s government at its worst. Which is truly angering.
then the moral side of using eminent domain to take private property.. it’s government at its worst. Which is truly angering.
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