01-31-2010, 02:48 AM
freeradical wrote:
Oh boy, don't get me started on this. The voters in California got sold a bill of goods on high speed rail. We were told that high speed rail between SF and LA is somehow "public transportation". It is nothing of the sort. It is $10 Billion down the toilet. Now if that money were used to subsidize city buses - and NOT light rail - then you could argue that the money was doing good.
Oh, you didn't hear?
They're now quoting 45 Billion dollars for the San Franciso to Los Angeles leg alone.
I happen to think that we could be using trains more, and more efficiently, than we are now in this country.
Having the current system of Government planning, buying, building, and operating train systems inflates the cost to about ten TIMES what it should cost, and makes it a terrible idea and so costly that it could indeed bankrupt states. Including California. Or maybe especially California.