Comments on: Appellate court green-lights high-speed rail project

By: AMartel

AMartel — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:32:54 +0000

Oh, Ken. You can go to other, smaller, more homogenous countries and buy your precious high speed rail sandwiches at kiosks. Apparently it’s a very compelling image (for you) but it’s pure magical thinking for California. High speed rail is an galactic rip off that counts on image and perception uninformed by reality. It’s a big ruse to redirect taxes into the “right” pockets. How long after the ’89 quake did it take to build the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge? (TRICK QUESTION!) How enormously far over budget was it? Who built it, who filled those jobs? And did they cover up inadequacies which are going to require even more money to go back and fix? California does NOT need high speed rail. Politicians and Ken find it convenient for their personal reasons, but the rest of us will be just fine without it.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 11:07:50 +0000

In “the end” we need high speed rail in California, although I know many are rabidly against it. But were you also against the eastern span of the Bay Bridge? All these things can be lumped together in boondoggle categories, but without that bridge there would be chaos on the roads of the Bay Area. Without the high speed rail, which every modern country has and is dedicated to even if subsidies are required, there would be chaos throughout the state as we puff up beyond sustainability on how we have dealt with our highway infrastructure. Trains are expensive, but you’ll be hopping aboard. Yes, you will. Trains will create lots of jobs along their routes. And you will be buying a sandwich from a kiosk at a high speed rail terminal somewhere in California within a few years. Yes, you will.

By: Robert S. Allen

Robert S. Allen — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 03:47:59 +0000

Prop 1-A (2008): “The Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act…” Trains at 220 mph – over three times the maximum on California freeways. 125 mph on Caltrain’s peninsula tracks, up from today’s 79 mph, inches from platforms with passengers awaiting commute trains.

To be Safe and Reliable, HSR needs a secure (grade-separated and fenced) route. That should have been and should be top priority for CHSRA. Their “Blended Rail” proposals are an invitation to accident, sabotage, and train delays. HSR could replace the Golden Gate Bridge for suicides.

High Speed Passenger Trains should not be allowed on any track that is not grade separated and securely fenced against intrusion. That should be the first consideration in selecting an HSR route, and it has not been.

By: T Mind of Ted Your God

T Mind of Ted Your God — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:44:23 +0000

Doomers HATE Art 3…..unless they win the case!

LOL
Let it flow

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:57:05 +0000

Rail will be built. Negativity is a CWD pass time….

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:29:34 +0000

This rail system will never be built and when the courts finally agree that it should be scrapped, none of the money will ever be found. This has to do with calif voters that didn’t have a clue and listened to a slick politicians. To bad they can’t turn to selling cars, that would only affect the not to bright and leave the informed alone. And before I take the heat, I sincerely apologize to the true professional car sales people.