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California just quit high speed rail debacle

sarktastic
sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
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Imagine how crushing this news would be to cirrhosis dolezal if he actually lived in California
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,139 Founders Club
    California voters approved the pricey proposal in 2008. Backers – including several Democratic lawmakers – heralded it as an inventive concept that would connect Californians and transform transit policies down the road.

    But critics claimed the bullet train project was a waste of time and money.

    “This so-called bullet train is a solution in search of a problem that is plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns and fiscal mismanagement,” San Diego Councilman Mark Kersey told Fox News in 2018, adding that the billions wasted on the project “could have been invested in our current infrastructure needs, such as water storage, flood control, highways and bridges.” "

    "Or a wall" Senator Bannon added laughing at the idiots who voted for this boondoggle in the first place.


    "I hope AOC is paying attention," the Senator continued, "this is definitely in my plans as an issue when I run in 2024"
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,875 Standard Supporter
    It was only 77 billion wasted. Kalifornia has plenty money comrade. Reeducation camps need funding. No flying trains!
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  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390
    Great news. I didn’t vote for it in 2008. It never made any sense financially, practically or economically. It’s just like trump’s border wall fiasco.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Sure.

    Cute alt
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,195 Founders Club
    • Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,875 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2019
    CirrhosisDawg said:

    Great news. I didn’t vote for it in 2008. It never made any sense financially, practically or economically. It’s just like trump’s border wall fiasco.

    But your heros wanted it and you voted for those commie fucks so yes you voted for it.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Fantasy was just terminated in favor of modern Science and Technology.

    Are you not paying attention?
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,139 Founders Club
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    • Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle
    Clear photo shop
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,875 Standard Supporter
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    RaceBannon said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    • Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle
    Clear photo shop
    I'm hearing in 10 years aviation will become obsolete because there will be so many trains built.
    Flying trains!
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,139 Founders Club
    Once upon a time alarmists like Hawking said man has how ever many years to find a new planet to live on because we are destroying earth


    Gonna be tough to fire those rockets on compost fuel
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited February 2019
    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    It will be a mute point in 12 years anyways.
    Exactly. Flying trains will take over by then.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited February 2019
    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    Hey dumb faggot. <300 miles is perfect for high speed rail.

    You can't have shit too close. Then you don't get there fast.

    Like 100-250 or 300 is the sweet spot. Especially if it's flat and not much shit in between.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Pitchfork51 said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    Hey dumb faggot. <300 miles is perfect for high speed rail. </p>
    Yes and the East coast is set up for that. But West coast is too Spread out. Albuquerque is lame unless you live right next to the a station and need to go right next to a station. It takes to long when you can just drive. I've made that commute a couple hundred times in the last 10 years.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Heads up, Youtube as been hacked. Or maybe q13, not sure

    https://youtu.be/QnS0_4yB3Mc
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Where's 2020 Presidential Hopeful Governor of Washington Jay Inslee today?
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  • DawgWagonDan
    DawgWagonDan Member Posts: 789
    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    I've ridden the Railrunner between ABQ and SF a couple times while on a family vacations. Seems like it had good ridership when we were on it. The bathrooms smelled like the 4th Ave Taco Bell bathrooms though. Holy moses it was nasty.
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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,045 Standard Supporter
    sarktastic said:

    Heads up, Youtube as been hacked. Or maybe q13, not sure

    https://youtu.be/QnS0_4yB3Mc

    Fuck. That. Shit.

    Build walls at WA's Northern and Southern Borders.

    Fuck Liberal Portland and Double-Fuck Uber-Liberal Vancouver, BC.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,792 Swaye's Wigwam
    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    Hey dumb faggot. <300 miles is perfect for high speed rail. </p>
    Yes and the East coast is set up for that. But West coast is too Spread out. Albuquerque is lame unless you live right next to the a station and need to go right next to a station. It takes to long when you can just drive. I've made that commute a couple hundred times in the last 10 years.
    How true (at least that part) and most vagrants/homeless do go right next to a station
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    edited February 2019
    I've ridden ALL of the trains at Magic Mountain.
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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,195 Founders Club
    TurdBuffer said:

    sarktastic said:

    Heads up, Youtube as been hacked. Or maybe q13, not sure

    https://youtu.be/QnS0_4yB3Mc

    Fuck. That. Shit.

    Build walls at WA's Northern and Southern Borders.

    Fuck Liberal Portland and Double-Fuck Uber-Liberal Vancouver, BC.
    Lol only 20% over budget? And finished in the 2030's.
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited February 2019
    It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/11/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-high-speed-bullet-trains-like-europe-and-asia/#329a89fbc080
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Boeing and Airport workers don’t have a problem with it.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    DawgWagonDan said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    I've ridden the Railrunner between ABQ and SF a couple times while on a family vacations. Seems like it had good ridership when we were on it. The bathrooms smelled like the 4th Ave Taco Bell bathrooms though. Holy moses it was nasty.
    https://www.abqjournal.com/1268465/rail-ridership-continues-to-fall.html
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    MikeDamone said:

    2001400ex said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    High speed rail would have been fantastic about 40 years ago.

    Even though Amtrak on the easy coast isn't high speed it kicks the crap out of flying.

    I think it would make sense throughout Texas first.

    Not too far of distances and nothing in between the cities. That California route is a fucking nightmare.

    Phoenix and Tucson actually not a bad idea.

    Albuquerque to Santa Fe was a waste. The West coast is too spread out for trains to make sense other than light rail stuff in town. San Diego and Portland both have a sweet setup.
    Portland’s light rail is shit.

    HTH.
    Why am I not surprised you are too dumb to use it.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,139 Founders Club
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    It never ceases to amaze me how other industrialized countries kick our ass in terms of transportation (mass or otherwise). If fucking Uzbekistan can figure out high speed rail, so should we.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/11/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-high-speed-bullet-trains-like-europe-and-asia/#329a89fbc080

    We actually have a great transportation system for the sheer size and population of this country

    We are letting it rust in the front yard at the moment but still

    Rebuilding infrastructure is another thing we've talked about for decades

    And done very little of
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