Comments on: High costs plague embattled high-speed rail

By: desmond

desmond — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:11:06 +0000

Perhaps it would be better to put a glass enclosure in the front of HSR and place the carcass (when he goes off to Hades) of the Governor Dick in it, like Lenin’s tomb. Brown has embraced totalitarian rule to fight changing weather. A common sense tribute to
pompous phallic headed ruler.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:38:29 +0000

Uly has been telling truths about the beloved choo choo for many many moons. Civilization will devovle to Calcutta level without diverse transporation uses and population /labor dispersion to cheap accessible lands…..

Yes….the tech slavers and plutocrats will exploit labor, but throw the working poor some future or YOU best hope Mother Thersea’s nuns set up shop fast in choking urban areas….

By: DavidfromLosGatos

DavidfromLosGatos — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:26:25 +0000

“Scott Weiner Lane” …

Reminds me of the “I’d bottom for Hilary” campaign …

http://bottomforhillary.com/

By: DavidfromLosGatos

DavidfromLosGatos — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:21:23 +0000

In reply to ricky65.

“Serf’liner” – Well done. A perfect name for the train …

By: desmond

desmond — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:02:47 +0000

1st, the new Bay Bridge is a structural disaster. It should be called the Willie and Jerry Brown bridge, so they can be linked in this disaster.
2-nd Shouldn t the front of the HSR car in the lead be shaped like Phallus like cranium of Jerry Brown? Another way to memorialize a man who is a really big Dick. It would also be a nice way to honor the gay population. There must be a tunnel for HSR to be built that could be designed to look like an asshole, ” Scott Weiner Lane”.

By: JPR11

JPR11 — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:48:38 +0000

Where is the justification for what will be a $100B project. Just look at the Bay Bridge project. It was originally estimated at $2B and 3 years to complete. when finally finished it came in at $10B and 10 years. It was also stated it would be self supporting. Just another lie. Come on! Just use an airplane for quicker and cheaper travel.

By: Dawn Urbanek

Dawn Urbanek — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:53:21 +0000

In reply to ricky65. My child should not be denied a basic education to pay for that.And that is exactly what is going on. Let them pay for their own regional mass transit.

By: ricky65

ricky65 — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:42:53 +0000

In reply to Ulysses Uhaul.

Just as even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, Uly has possibly stumbled unto the truth by accident.
Interesting that the emphasis of building the Brown Streak has now shifted to building the SJ- Bakersfield leg first.
I’m wondering if the Green Gentry and Tech oligarchs that control the Dem party in the Bay area now realize the problem they have created. Could it be possible they might have directed their sock puppet, Jerry Brown to change course.
Their restrictive anti growth, deconstructionist policies these people have advocated over the decades has driven the cost of housing through the roof. As a result, the oligarchs have a pressing for gardeners, pool cleaners, nannies and assorted low paid serfs to tend their mansions and run their factories. Unfortunately, these poor folks can longer afford to live in the area.
The BS train would provide a perfect way to run these rif-raf (in their view) into Silicon Valley during the day to work and then get them back out of sight and home quickly to their ghettos and hovels in the poverty stricken southern San Joaquin valley by night.
It’s perfect fix for perpetuating the state with highest poverty rates in the nation without the oligarchs having to put up with these scum walking about their tony neighborhoods.
And after all, the richy South Coast has their Surfliner train into San Diego.
Now Northern California would have their own ‘Serf’liner also!

By: Dawn Urbanek

Dawn Urbanek — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:07:43 +0000

In reply to StopYerBellyaching. I agree- stope new programs and entitlements for people who entered this country illegally and stop the high speed rail - that is an unnecessary infrastructure project and keep your promise to our kids.

By: Dawn Urbanek

Dawn Urbanek — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:05:24 +0000

In reply to David Wiltsee.

“Change in bullet train construction plans will delay rail line’s arrival in Southern California” http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-route-20160219-story.html

They now what the State to fund a regional rail project that will start and only serve northern California- why should Orange County pay for that?