It would also cost taxpayers billions of dollars while having no clear path to breaking even at any point in the future and unfavorably comparing to air travel options on price and travel time.

High-speed rail is American liberals' white whale.

Are you serious? When did that happen? I thought there just brought it up again recently.. Damn

we're trying to build a new high speed line in the uk and it's massively unpopular controversial, so the government just had an independent review published which purports to show that the economic benefits will be huge, only when you dig into it a starting assumption is that transport links are the critical factor in impeding economic growth. It's one of the best examples of begging the question i've ever seen.

I thought some mega wealthy guy was thinking of just funding it himself, but I may have just combined several news stories in my head

and it coincidentally ends up running from just outside his house, to just outside the bellagio?

only peasants leave the house to catch the train

theres already a train inside the bellagio. city center tram is amazing, and somehow none of the tourists are aware of it and instead walk or take taxis lol

Stuff like Buy America is part of the reason that these projects cost way more than they should.

There is no way it wouldn't have been competitive with air travel once it was finally connected into downtown LA. For such a short trip, the simplified check-in procedures would negate the slower travel speed for such a short trip. And prices would then reflect that. I don't remember what the projections were as far as revenue vs expenses, but I-15 is already choked and LAS is going to exceed its capacity soon, so money is going to have to be spent soon to add capacity regardless of which type of project it is.

I was never convinced that this particular project was actually worth the money it would cost, although it sounded a lot better once they figured out how to actually get it all the way to LA. In principle, at least, I like the idea of high-speed rail better than widening freeways or building bigger airports. Cars are terribly inefficient at moving people in pretty much every way possible, and airports take up ridiculous amounts of land while lowering quality of life for miles around them. They either have to be located far away from anything interesting which wipes out a lot of the time savings that they enable, or their effects will mar the quality of the interesting stuff nearby. It's lose/lose.


Maybe a month ago.

What's wrong with walking?

firing up some cia propaganda

115 degree weather

Did filthy lock his own thread or are pog mods in complete Nazi mode

Sorry to post it here but so the appropriate places are locked

Johnny ****ing Football, that's what I'm talkin about. 7-0 baby

ok heres my point: I prefer walking to things within walking distance, why is that subject to ridicule iyo?

14-0 baby

wtf are you talking about, tbob. it was an emoticon.

actually ive been to nevada twice! never even been to california but i could sense the evil all the way from las vegas

good score but that last TD pass was ugly as heck, probably picked off if the CB has any awareness whatsoever

nah, that's just bakersfield

and before that you said people choosing to walk is "lol", that was my response

hahaha

i dont even go to cali for my lotto tickets. arizona babyyy

why cant we have the lotto

you could save the gas and just light $5 on fire in the comfort of your own home?

felix yes most people comsider cable standard