Comments on: Chinese firm plans L.A.-to-Vegas train

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:52:19 +0000

Why not have the Chicoms invest in the Socialist Soviet Republic of California? Afterall, we did hand the state over to one party rule via the open primary right?

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:10:24 +0000

You Graboids will beworking tourist concessions along the route?

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:43:17 +0000

And knowing these chi-coms they’ll build it right through private property and have small towns wiped out

By: ConservativeActivist

ConservativeActivist — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:37:20 +0000

In reply to Richard Rider. The Chinese built a bridge in northern California with Chinese labor. There is nothing to make me believe that this HSR project would put Americans to work.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:47:44 +0000

In reply to Rex the Wonder Dog!. How true. WiFi and Blum are nothing more than first class grifters who have been taking taxpayers to the cleaners for decades. But there is nothing unique about this as the District of Criminals is a cesspool of corruption. I bet 90% of the sheeple who vote for WiFi don't even know who Blum is.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:33:47 +0000

In reply to Richard Rider. Blum has been grifting off of DiFi's largess for decades, he was doing it back 25 years ago with super sweetheart deals from the RTC to CB Commercial, his real estate firm....

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:32:13 +0000

In reply to Hank de Carbonel.

LOL…We are never going to win in any “deal” with China, or any other nation, when our “leaders” allow our country to be raped and pillaged financially. We are now a second tier country, and China is going to pass us, soon, as the worlds largest economy.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:12:00 +0000

More pie-in-the-sky. Statistics from the Las Vegas visitor bureau show that most vistiors to Vegas come by plane — roughly 4,000,00 per month. The visitors driving from So. Cal. number around 40,000 per month compared to about 80,000 on all major highways. So if this proposed train “only” cost $100,000,000, at a fare of say $90 each way, it would take over half a million passengers to break even. By car, assume that most folks don’t drive alone, but even if they did, that would mean break-even would occur in about 14 months. Is that realistic? Fuel costs for a round trip to Vegas from LA is about $75. I don’t think you could pry more than about 10% of the visitors from their cars. Of couse, some would abandon air travel if rail was available so lets assume that 20,000 visitors per month would ride the train. In that scenario, pay -back for the capital cost (at $90 each way) is 28 years. And remember, I haven’t even considered operating costs. Or the likelyhood of cost overruns. Or the potential for derailment when the San Andreas fault slips as a high-speed train is going through. Aw, let them talk. Maybe someone else will propose a couple of zip-lines, one from and the other to Vegas. Use a mile-high tower at the send-off at each end.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:23:24 +0000

The good news is that it’s bad politics today to subsidize the Red Chinese. Hence no DC or CA funding will be forthcoming for the project.

Now, if Senator Feinstein’s hubby proposed this high risk, zero return project, then DC/Obama ET AL would likely kick in taxpayer money.

By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:59:53 +0000

Makes a whole lot more sense than Moonbeam’s pseudo high speed train that travels north/south, when the vast majority of Californians commute east/west. Duh.