Sound Transit Continues To Impress

thechatch

https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1361045076160446467?s=21

LoneStarDawg

Bankruptcy isn’t the only indicator of economic health

DoogieMcDoogerson

WPPSS...

Tequilla

Mismanagement rewarded

PurpleThrobber

Tequilla said:

Mismanagement rewarded

Democratic Party motto.

RaceBannon

I was right from the start. I voted no. Don't blame me

Pitchfork51

Tequilla said:

Mismanagement rewarded

When tequila only says one word

He means it.

One phrase. Fuck you guys.

WestlinnDuck

More science, numbers and sh*t from the party of SCIENCE.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR: A Global Leader in Obsolete Technology.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high-speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives, all technologies that were once revolutionary but are functionally obsolete today. High-speed trains, in particular, were rendered obsolete in 1958, when Boeing introduced the 707 jetliner, which was twice as fast as the fastest trains today.

Aside from speed, what makes high-speed rail obsolete is its high cost. Unlike airlines, which don’t require much infrastructure other than landing fields, high-speed trains require huge amounts of infrastructure that must be built and maintained to extremely precise standards. That’s why airfares averaged just 14 cents per passenger-mile in 2019, whereas fares on Amtrak’s high-speed Acela averaged more than 90 cents per passenger-mile.

Highways require infrastructure but not this level of precision. While a four-lane freeway costs about $10 million to $20 million a mile, California ended up spending $100 million a mile building its abortive high-speed rail line on flat ground, and it predicted building in hilly territory would cost at least $170 million per mile.

Graft is what government-run passenger trains are all about.

Flashback: Mass Transit, The Pandemic Petri Dish The Left Loves.

doogie

chugga chugga choo choo

thechatch

We’ve all seen this play before.

How’s California’s project coming along?

“ Gov. Gavin Newsom’s remarks on California’s embattled high-speed rail project in his State of the State address this week seemed to confuse just about everyone.

“Let’s be real,” the governor told a joint session of the California Legislature on Tuesday. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and, respectfully, take too long.”

Few noticed that he stressed the words “as planned.” Instead, many focused on his next statement:

“Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were. However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield.”

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Fire_Marshall_Bill

High speed rail might make sense in a few areas of the cuntry, but its f.s. to build it extensively. It makes more sense in medium countries like Japan and Spain. Nobody is going to take a train 2,000 miles for business

WestlinnDuck

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

High speed rail might make sense in a few areas of the cuntry, but its f.s. to build it extensively. It makes more sense in medium countries like Japan and Spain. Nobody is going to take a train 2,000 miles for business

If high speed rail made economic sense, we would have it. It doesn't so we don't. That is how easy it is. I'm sure Bill Gates supports it. He would put his eyes out with a spoon before he used it. Case close.

thechatch

Does it make sense to get from Merced To Bakersfield?

Good lord....what a disaster.