Now we'll get to see how deep the inroads have been made by Medical Marijuana...
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Perhaps if the line is a dedicated high speed right of way ... maybe just grading the preliminary sub-roadbed, all the way from terminus to terminus would be the first step (employing just a few hundered people).
No Track, no signals, no wiring, no nothing extra ... then after the sub-roadbed route is approved ... then build the track and wiring ... then the signals ... then the testing of loco's.
Instead, they employ thousands and thousands of workers, and hundereds of construction companies ... who each in turn, pad the bill, purposely sandbag and cause unnecessary construction delays, and are actually caught sleeping on the job, sitting home clocked in on the timeclock, or embezeling funds.
The cost will be in the Trillions ... for a line that only a couple dozen passengers will ride each day.
And when the passengers get to the end of the line ... their workplace is 25 miles distant the terminus station ... requiring a Rental Car, Taxi, or many many connecting bus and trolley route transfers.
No Track, no signals, no wiring, no nothing extra ... then after the sub-roadbed route is approved ... then build the track and wiring ... then the signals ... then the testing of loco's.
Instead, they employ thousands and thousands of workers, and hundereds of construction companies ... who each in turn, pad the bill, purposely sandbag and cause unnecessary construction delays, and are actually caught sleeping on the job, sitting home clocked in on the timeclock, or embezeling funds.
The cost will be in the Trillions ... for a line that only a couple dozen passengers will ride each day.
And when the passengers get to the end of the line ... their workplace is 25 miles distant the terminus station ... requiring a Rental Car, Taxi, or many many connecting bus and trolley route transfers.
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California has legal medical marijuana shops, and you'd have to be high to continue to support flushing money down this hole!
If it's done right, I suspect it will be popular. However, it seems as if the increased cost estimates are going to cause them to build a project that isn't fast enough to attract passengers from the airlines, but still costs a fortune to build. And as for building the first stretch right in the middle - surely LA to Bakersfield would be a better start?
Paul
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Well, the votes are in and California has decided that it can't let the carrot of Federal Money, (well, my money... and every other taxpayer's) dangle in front of them any longer! They are "all in" for building HSR.
I used to live out there, in the 80's and what a beautiful state it was. I wouldn't move back there, and as it turns out...I don't have to! I now live in Illinois which is circling the same drain as California, perhaps it's even ahead!
I would up and move tomorrow...to Texas, if the job market were not so bad! Oh, and the fire ants, and spiders...and scorpions and heat.
I used to live out there, in the 80's and what a beautiful state it was. I wouldn't move back there, and as it turns out...I don't have to! I now live in Illinois which is circling the same drain as California, perhaps it's even ahead!
I would up and move tomorrow...to Texas, if the job market were not so bad! Oh, and the fire ants, and spiders...and scorpions and heat.
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