| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Caliifornia's train to nowhere now officially nowhere |
| 2025-07-17 |
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
|
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 They will start again by this time from Mexico to LA will be the rail route |
| Posted by: Airandee 2025-07-17 17:45 |
| #11 It's no one's fault, really. It just kind of happened. |
| Posted by: Matt 2025-07-17 15:41 |
| #10 And of course busses free you from the "few billion here, few billion there" tolls paid to Poseidon and the lethal profession. |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2025-07-17 14:54 |
| #9 Once tried to guesstimate what sort of bus system could be permanently funded for the estimated final cost of this mess, using what seemed to me conservative numbers at every step. Result was multiple departures per hour in each direction, SD-SF. And the flexibility of routing and whatnot! Just about broke me heart (I'm a cheapskate who actually likes public transit). |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2025-07-17 14:45 |
| #8 #6, yes but they 'lease' the rails that someone else owns. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-07-17 14:25 |
| #7 You shall build our Pazifischer Mauer ["His stick! How we wish it to flower!"] Which lengthy redoubt Should suffice to keep out All who don't make a hundred per hour. |
| Posted by: Winky Crash3580 2025-07-17 14:18 |
| #6 ^ there already is a rail corridor between LA and the SF area (Oakland) it is an Amtrak line called the Coast Starlight in the summer it is pretty crowded and about 1000 people a day take this line between LA and Oakland although many board or disembark at intermediate stations |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-07-17 13:31 |
| #5 This is not Europe or Japan. The few useful rail corridors are already to congested with infrastructure in order to economically build. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-07-17 10:32 |
| #4 The Calif H S Rail has been such a disaster that it has led to the canceling of planning of other high speed rail projects. This may prove to be its most significant accomplishment. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-07-17 09:57 |
| #3 The ballot arguments for the original bonds were all lies. There are no ridership revenue projections that meet reality. It's cooked. Pictures of the 119 mile unfinished structures will be banned and down the Memory Hole it will go |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-07-17 09:49 |
| #2 Their choice, though they haven’t the income for all their projects already. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-07-17 09:27 |
| #1 The state will continue to fund it. |
| Posted by: Ed 2025-07-17 09:15 |