Comments on: Bullet train: Is L.A. Times’ beat reporter ashamed of edit page?

By: Why do 40% of Californians still think this is great?

Why do 40% of Californians still think this is great? — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:38:41 +0000

The reality of this boondoggle needs to be highlighted repeatedly by ordinary people in ordinary ways until the support drops to the 30% socialist core among state voters. Don’t count on the California Republican Party or any other organization to make the case against this boondoggle. Too much money is at stake for corporations, Wall Street investors, unions, and other establishment parasites.

Letters to the editors of your local newspapers, water-cooler chat, Facebook posts, all of this is needed to offset the propaganda about the bullet train.

Take action!

By: WackoCaliBird

WackoCaliBird — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:29:48 +0000

It may be fortunate that construction proceeds at a glacial pace. Gov Jerry will be long gone and maybe, just maybe, Crazyfornia will elect someone with some business and economic sense. It could happen.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:17:50 +0000

Now there is a youtube video not to miss. When the train traveling 200mph, flies off the bridge when it falls down during an earthquake. A remake of ‘Bridge over the river Kwai’ is in order. I’m sure that train crash will make ‘Kwai’ look tame.
But can they get Obi wan Kanobe to come back from the dead to replay his part?
I feel a disturbance in the force.
Hondo……

By: us citizen

us citizen — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:51:03 +0000

You’ll be dead before it ever makes it from LA to SF.

By: JOHN WALSH

JOHN WALSH — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:30:33 +0000

You’re so un-fair. As a white man, toy trains are my birthright. The bigger and the faster the toy.trains, the better!

God will watch over this project . I include Hi-Speed rail in my prayers every night! And when it’s completed , I can travel from L.A. To Frisco in just two hours and forty minutes.WOWEE!
Super-Cool at twice the price!
JOHN WALSH

By: Naresh Krishnamoorti

Naresh Krishnamoorti — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:37:17 +0000

Hey, they’re going to have dropouts and felons given jobs preferences for working on this boondoggle. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing to worry about going 200 MPH thirteen stories above the San Andreas fault.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:18:12 +0000

I’m also thinking the planners of this project are expecting there won’t be any earthquakes during the construction phase. Many times, the ability of these bridges to stand earthquakes are dependent on the finished design. Just how earthquake proof are these bridges DURING construction.
Hondo…

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:13:11 +0000

I’m gussing it will cost twice the amount the entire project, as projected now, just to build the Bakersfield to LA section. It won’t be an engineering marval, it with be a miracle to navigate that section. And thats just building the rail line. The political and legal process may dwarf even that. What were we thinking in voting for this horrific mess(I didn’t ).
Hondo….

By: Dypeptic

Dypeptic — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:31:27 +0000

At this point the only question is how much money the Trainiacs will waste before this boondoggle goes off the rails for good. My guess would be $9.95 billion. Crazyfornia voters are the biggest suckers on planet earth.