That’s right Ulysses. Must be a seasonal thing.

You are right. You are a dork.

Teddy and Saw get them active-

Exactly, which is why I plan on offering an intiative forcing the PUBLIC EMPLOYEES as a Whole to be required By Law to cover any and All Shortfalls on Operating and Construction Costs.

Since state law says that the system MUST OPERATE WITHOUT A TAXPAYER SUBSIDY, which may necessitate higher fares per mile, compared with other similar rail systems worldwide, which will adversely affect ridership projections.

If, and a big IF, the bullet train ever progresses, those engineering and construction technical challenges to get over the mountains between Bakersfield and Los Angeles will be reviewed and scrutinized under a microscope. The result of those public reviews would result in an image for the public of safety concerns that would then negatively impact any potential ridership for decades. In addition, there may not be engineering or construction firms large enough to take on the liability exposure to their firms to take on this “mission impossible” to get the train over the grapevine.

Flying can be done at virtually any time of day from numerous airports, but the inflexibility of how many train departure times would be available from a limited number of trains would impact the convenience factor offered by cars and planes and thus also adversely affect train ridership. The snowballing effect of lower ridership would be higher fares for those that do use the train as there would be no state subsidies available.