Highly unionized employees . . . Had to bust up a poker game for a few minutes to have the Porter get sheets for my bed. He was irate cuz it was supposed to have been done by another employee in LA.
Simply, the trip through hell.
I can’t imagine taking coach for 30 hours.
Only a slight upgrade from Greyhound.
This was over 35 years ago . . .
One and done.
When I was 17 our high school Spanish club went to Mexico for a month at a Spanish school for US students. Took Greyhound to Mexico. What a cluster phuck. First night bunch of drunk guys in the back that got dropped off in the middle of nowhere at about 3 AM. Our high school teacher after a week down in Saltillo got threatened by his wife with divorce if he didn't come home. After consultation with the parents, they decided to leave me in charge of six other teenagers. So, I led our intrepid squad after the four weeks, back to Portland from Saltillo, Mexico via bus. You think that sh*t would happen today. I hate Greyhound.
If you didn't get the right away and lay the rail in the 1800s forget it. That's problem 1 with the California HSR. Nobody wants it running through their hood. That's why they have Bakersfield to Fresno or whatever. NOGAF
If you didn't get the right away and lay the rail in the 1800s forget it. That's problem 1 with the California HSR. Nobody wants it running through their hood. That's why they have Bakersfield to Fresno or whatever. NOGAF
If you didn't get the right away and lay the rail in the 1800s forget it. That's problem 1 with the California HSR. Nobody wants it running through their hood. That's why they have Bakersfield to Fresno or whatever. NOGAF
I get it. How much land adjacent to I-5 infringes on private property to the extent that use comp/eminent domain isn’t a workable path forward? I have very little knowledge in this realm, tbh.
Highly unionized employees . . . Had to bust up a poker game for a few minutes to have the Porter get sheets for my bed. He was irate cuz it was supposed to have been done by another employee in LA.
Simply, the trip through hell.
I can’t imagine taking coach for 30 hours.
Only a slight upgrade from Greyhound.
This was over 35 years ago . . .
One and done.
When I was 17 our high school Spanish club went to Mexico for a month at a Spanish school for US students. Took Greyhound to Mexico. What a cluster phuck. First night bunch of drunk guys in the back that got dropped off in the middle of nowhere at about 3 AM. Our high school teacher after a week down in Saltillo got threatened by his wife with divorce if he didn't come home. After consultation with the parents, they decided to leave me in charge of six other teenagers. So, I led our intrepid squad after the four weeks, back to Portland from Saltillo, Mexico via bus. You think that sh*t would happen today. I hate Greyhound.
What year did you graduate from West Linn?
Actually graduated from Aloha High School in 1972. We had a gun range at school and kids took their 22 match rifles to school on the bus. Pheasants were still in the valley and kids brought their shotguns to school in their trunks and then off to the fields after school. Good times.
If you didn't get the right away and lay the rail in the 1800s forget it. That's problem 1 with the California HSR. Nobody wants it running through their hood. That's why they have Bakersfield to Fresno or whatever. NOGAF
So I take the train down to Bakersfield from Fresno because I have work down there for the day. I get into Bakersfield and I have no car, so I have to rent a car when I get there. Now why wouldn't I just drive there in the first place? The "high speed" train in California is the biggest public works boondoggle ever. It was never going to be "high" speed, and nobody will ride it. They now have billions in cost overruns and they haven't even started construction on the most difficult sections. They are building now in areas that are flat and straight. There is no way in hell that train ever gets built but plenty of connected construction companies will get very wealthy "working" on it.
If you didn't get the right away and lay the rail in the 1800s forget it. That's problem 1 with the California HSR. Nobody wants it running through their hood. That's why they have Bakersfield to Fresno or whatever. NOGAF
So I take the train down to Bakersfield from Fresno because I have work down there for the day. I get into Bakersfield and I have no car, so I have to rent a car when I get there. Now why wouldn't I just drive there in the first place? The "high speed" train in California is the biggest public works boondoggle ever. It was never going to be "high" speed, and nobody will ride it. They now have billions in cost overruns and they haven't even started construction on the most difficult sections. They are building now in areas that are flat and straight. There is no way in hell that train ever gets built but plenty of connected construction companies will get very wealthy "working" on it.
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building. Constructed in one year and 45 days. The I-5 replacement bridge over the Columbia River has been under study for a decade and $250 million spent. We won World War II in less time that it takes to build a bridge. Took four years in the 1930s to construct the Golden Gate bridge with 1930's technology. Today, according to leftards, foodstamps are infrastructure.
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building. Constructed in one year and 45 days. The I-5 replacement bridge over the Columbia River has been under study for a decade and $250 million spent. We won World War II in less time that it takes to build a bridge. Took four years in the 1930s to construct the Golden Gate bridge with 1930's technology. Today, according to leftards, foodstamps are infrastructure.
Well, we do have politicians, unions, OSHA and an army of lawyers to enrich and feed.
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