Comments on: Only hope for further state bullet train $$ is gone https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Chrisman https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11190 Wed, 01 May 2013 22:51:17 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11190 The train to nowhere. . .
CXman

]]> By: us citizen https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11189 Wed, 01 May 2013 21:21:10 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11189 Lets hope the wicked witch of the west is dead.

]]> By: tomcatdad https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11188 Wed, 01 May 2013 20:32:28 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11188 In San Gabriel Canyon there is a bridge built in the 30’s that literally goes nowhere. I was a make work project that was poorly planned, just funded to put men to work.

]]> By: C. Wyatt Hertz https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11187 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:58:10 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11187 I’ve been referring to the browndoggle as the “Moonbeam Zephyr.” That seems an appropriate name for the project.

]]> By: stolson https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11186 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:57:38 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11186 So, Blum gets rich yet Feinstein’s investors (contributors) are not going to put any private money into this train fiasco. Is Brown just their patsy?

]]> By: BigFire https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11185 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:22:02 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11185 No worry, the right people (Richard Blum) will get paid. Who care if it goes nowhere?

]]> By: jimmydeeoc https://calwatchdog.com/2013/05/01/only-hope-for-further-state-bullet-train-is-gone/#comment-11184 Wed, 01 May 2013 18:18:40 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=41916#comment-11184 Indeed — Many years from now, the Merced to Fresno segment will sit unused, baking in the San Joaquin Valley sun, while future explorers scratch their heads and look upon it as we do the megaliths of Easter Island.

As to its usefulness, I would draw comparison to the Governor William J Le Petomane Thruway, except the Thruway actually served a purpose (it slowed down Taggart and his gang…..LOL)

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