Comments on: Bullet train: Judge shows taxpayers may be saved by Prop. 1A https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/19/bullet-train-taxpayers-may-be-saved-by-prop-1a-protections/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: bash brannigan https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/19/bullet-train-taxpayers-may-be-saved-by-prop-1a-protections/#comment-34950 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:35:10 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48351#comment-34950 “Boondoggle” being the operative word….

]]> By: Rex the Wonderdog! https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/19/bullet-train-taxpayers-may-be-saved-by-prop-1a-protections/#comment-34925 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:35:24 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48351#comment-34925 This is a disaster, and everyone knows it….

]]> By: morris brown https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/19/bullet-train-taxpayers-may-be-saved-by-prop-1a-protections/#comment-34817 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:03:39 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48351#comment-34817 There are even more ramifications concerning the use of a “blended plan”, then the impossibility of the project ever being able to go LA to SF in 2 hr. 40 minutes.

The use of shared tracks on the Peninsula, limits High Speed Trainsets from being able to run up to 12 trains per hour (each way) to 2 or at most 3 trains per hour. So not only are the travel times dramatically lengthened (think now of 3 hr 30 minutes ) but the number of possible riders is heavily reduced.

The promised 117,000,000 passengers per year will be reduced to one-fourth that amount, maybe 25 to 30 million passengers per year. Less passengers, less revenue, more need for ever greater subsidy to operative the system (any subsidy is illegal under Prop 1A).

]]> By: Bill -San Jose https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/19/bullet-train-taxpayers-may-be-saved-by-prop-1a-protections/#comment-34791 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:30:31 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48351#comment-34791 The truth hurts.

Good.

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