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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,051 Standard Supporter
    edited May 2021
    thechatch said:

    I’d love a HS rail system that runs I-5 and I-90, but how feasible is it?

    1 modified bridge across Lake Washington has been under construction for 5 years and isn't even close to being done, if that gives you any idea.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,680
    SFGbob said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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.
    It's a politicians dream
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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,917 Standard Supporter
    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.
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  • trublue
    trublue Member Posts: 3,042
    WestlinnDuck said:

    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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