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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:56 am    Post subject: California High Speed Rail is a go!

http://news.yahoo.com/california-high-speed-rail-gets-green-light-080617469.html




I read on wiki that the LA to SF section won't be done until 2030 at the earliest though
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:04 am    Post subject:

It's a high-speed rail, not a monorail.

BTW the ring came off my pudding can!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:14 am    Post subject:

Great...more bid "ideas" we've got absolutely no money for...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:21 am    Post subject:

C M B wrote:
It's a high-speed rail, not a monorail.

BTW the ring came off my pudding can!


yea but then the simpsons reference wouldnt have made sense if i said high speed rail
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:30 am    Post subject:

Sojo wrote:
Great...more bid "ideas" we've got absolutely no money for...


Don't you know the US's motto? Borrow it, then spend it all, go over budget, borrow more and then not pay it back? Yup, that's how we do...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:41 am    Post subject:

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California monorail is a go!

as long as it takes us to Tomorrowland!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:27 am    Post subject:

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California monorail is a go!

as long as it takes us to Tomorrowland!


And then back to the Disneyland Hotel.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:30 am    Post subject:

American's crumbling infrastructure problem, meet Economy in-need-of- stimulus. Economy-in-need-of-stimulus, meet America's crumbling infrastructure problems.

Why don't you two just get married and solve both of your problems at once?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:09 am    Post subject:

Johnny Rage wrote:
Sojo wrote:
Great...more bid "ideas" we've got absolutely no money for...


Don't you know the US's motto?Borrow it, then spend it all, go over budget, borrow more and then not pay it back? Yup, that's how we do...


YOLO!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:11 am    Post subject:

2030? will we last that long?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:04 am    Post subject:

As planned, what a colossal waste of money.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:23 am    Post subject:

my kids should have a fun time paying for this


gg (bleep)
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:08 pm    Post subject:

forget that! where's my high speed train to Vegas??!!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:20 pm    Post subject:

Only 20 years to build?
And this is not with the delays which will inevitably happen.
The projected costs for this blew up nearly 3x the costs when it went to the voting booth back in 2008 and who knows what the final costs will be...Plus it was originally scheduled to finish in 2020 when they proposed this to the voters. Not a surprise that support for has dropped...
By the time they finish building this I will be close to retiring...
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:20 pm    Post subject:

It'll never get built.

Our country will be in the toilet by 2030.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:09 pm    Post subject:

Environmentalists win again with another colossal waste of money.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:38 pm    Post subject:

hmm i guess i'm the only one excited for this
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:45 pm    Post subject:

lakerforever24 wrote:
hmm i guess i'm the only one excited for this


A lot of people were excited by this when this project was on the voting booth in 2008...Unfortunately, I think most people realized that they just gave the politicians a blank check to build this train. Not to mention, they managed to tell us that the train wouldn't be finished until 2030 at the earliest, not 2020 as they initially sold the project to the public....I'm afraid its gonna be another fiasco like the Big Dig, except on a much bigger scale.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:02 pm    Post subject:

How pathetic is our government? How long does it take to build a train? By the time this train is build, teleportation may be invented, then the train is worthless, like most government investments.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:47 pm    Post subject:

DuncanIdaho wrote:
As planned, what a colossal waste of money.


Agreed.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:55 pm    Post subject: Re: California High Speed Rail is a go!

lakerforever24 wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/california-high-speed-rail-gets-green-light-080617469.html




I read on wiki that the LA to SF section won't be done until 2030 at the earliest though
wow i will be darn near retirement status by then. lol.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:57 pm    Post subject:

Pow Gasol wrote:
forget that! where's my high speed train to Vegas??!!
exactly.

the high speed train needs to go from SF to LA to Diego/Laughlin/Vegas, phoenix AZ.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:20 pm    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
lakerforever24 wrote:
hmm i guess i'm the only one excited for this


A lot of people were excited by this when this project was on the voting booth in 2008...Unfortunately, I think most people realized that they just gave the politicians a blank check to build this train. Not to mention, they managed to tell us that the train wouldn't be finished until 2030 at the earliest, not 2020 as they initially sold the project to the public....I'm afraid its gonna be another fiasco like the Big Dig, except on a much bigger scale.


I can't see the future but I could guess at what type of massive, bloated mess that project was going to be back in 2008 and that's why I voted against it back then.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:23 pm    Post subject:

postandpivot wrote:
Pow Gasol wrote:
forget that! where's my high speed train to Vegas??!!
exactly.

the high speed train needs to go from SF to LA to Diego/Laughlin/Vegas, phoenix AZ.


Exactly. Madera to Baskersfield. Who really wants that? What use is that?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:36 pm    Post subject:

what a f'n waste. Can't lazy people just freakin drive themselves?
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