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- inactive, on 09/15/2008, -1/+1022 Hours and 40 minutes!!! I've spent twice as long as that sitting on I 5 just trying to get out of LA! The fact that it's zero emissions is a nice bonus, but 2:40... that's awesome!
- kingofinternet, on 09/15/2008, -2/+802030? remember when ***** actually got done in america?
well at least we're building schools in iraq with our tax money. - Proel, on 09/15/2008, -1/+77Yeah, but it'll only be built by 2030. By then we'll all be robots anyway. Maybe we'll just be able to upload ourselves to LA or something.
- snowhite7185, on 09/15/2008, -1/+74Now let's just hope it actually gets built. And once that happens...let's hope it runs on time, unlike Amtrak.
- davidryal, on 09/15/2008, -9/+73this will never happen, because we are way better than europe in every way and they have high speed trains that run like clockwork. obviously we're too good for high speed trains. i'll sit in traffic, thank you, as long as i am secure in the knowledge of how much better we are than those train-loving bastards.
- harrydabassist, on 09/15/2008, -2/+57By 2030!!! We'll all have been dead for 18 years!!!!
- AdeleMor, on 09/15/2008, -0/+52i'm waiting for the magnetic train from la to new york
- palsss, on 09/15/2008, -1/+45my vote is for l.a. to vegas
- bigballerrob22, on 09/15/2008, -0/+342030? By that time it'll be considered slow.
- TheLoneHoot, on 09/15/2008, -5/+35Let's hope the engineer isn't text messaging at critical moments too.
(too soon?) - waxenpi, on 09/15/2008, -1/+30somebody call china to get over here and build this thing ASAP
- rodon, on 09/15/2008, -0/+26What?!? New schools?!?!
NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!!
:P - inactive, on 09/15/2008, -0/+25It would totally suck to have yourself bit-torrented by 15 year old kids.
- scoottie, on 09/15/2008, -0/+21imagine if each company that owns a casino in vegas puts like $10 million per casino into a fund to make this happen. they would make that money back in no time even if its half the price of a plane ticket and they get 10% from each ticket plus all the money from the people that live or visit LA going to vegas in 30 mins instead of and hour by plane or 4 hours driving.
- gluecode, on 09/15/2008, -0/+212030 is too far. I will be using the senior citizen ticket by then.
- NCSD, on 09/15/2008, -2/+19They did it in the 1800's....
- inactive, on 09/15/2008, -0/+173,350 GIGAWATTS!
- thatsmyaibo, on 09/15/2008, -1/+17Hell, they would probably offer it for free. I have never spent money on a room in Vegas because they mke their money on gambling. Especially now that Vegas's business has gone down nearly 50%.
On the upside, I would definitely use a train from L.A. to Vegas. - bigballerrob22, on 09/15/2008, -0/+16hahah ain't that the truth, I loved the one time it took me about 7 hours to go from San Diego to Bakersfield.
You have to love the infrastructure planning of California's bureaucrats. - StupotAce, on 09/15/2008, -8/+23But can it play Crys...
I mean...***** you, my friend died on a tr....
Ah, screw it. We need some new catch phrases. - KMartSheriff, on 09/15/2008, -0/+14How can people seriously not see the sarcasm?
- Infidelcastr0, on 09/15/2008, -0/+11To hell with those eurotrash bastards and their stupid "functioning infrastructure"
- DeFex, on 09/15/2008, -0/+10oh yeah the last end of the world prophecy that hasn't expired.O_o
- waxenpi, on 09/15/2008, -0/+9this train won't have nearly as many stops amtrak has on their east coast route (not saying it will still run on time)
- afx1, on 09/15/2008, -1/+10good job, captain
- fshaiq, on 09/15/2008, -0/+9http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/map.htm
has information on routes, distance, expected time (only 3:35 from sacramento to san diego!) and cost of trip. - antriver, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8I'm waiting for the maglev train in a vacuum tunnel between London and New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel - ChayD, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8This is a commuter train, it would probably be located in city centers and served by light rail or subway, so you wouldn't need a big car park.I wouldn't really call it a major terrorist target, if trains were, I'm pretty sure someone would have taken out the channel tunnel, or any one of the worlds hight speed railways by now, even if they were a terrorist target, ***** it, why should the world stop developing just because there's a risk of getting blown up? Especially when in reality, you're more likely to get run over while crossing the road to the station.
- wakkow, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8I went to school up near Sacramento and tried to look into taking Amtrak home. It would have taken about 12 hours (2 hrs longer than driving), cost about the same as flying, and I would have to take an Amtrak bus for about 3 hrs of it. No thanks. If this thing passes, that's a totally different story.
- Molle7, on 09/15/2008, -4/+12For all the non-mph'ers in the world:
220 MPH = 354.05568 Kilometres per hour. - inactive, on 09/15/2008, -4/+11Blog spam. Other than a very unstable plan and some expensive graphics made by some expensive consultants, there is no indication they will ever begin building this, and there is certainly no news in this post. California can barely afford to pay its current employees, there is simply no money for them to build a multi-billion dollar rail line.
- mchisari, on 09/15/2008, -1/+8Everybody beats up on Amtrak, but they've done pretty damn well, considering they're treated like a red headed step child compared to highways and airlines when it comes to federal funding.
"Along these lines, in a June 12, 2008 interview with Reuters, current Amtrak President Alex Kummant made specific observations: $10 billion per year is transferred from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund; $2.7 billion is granted to the FAA; $8 billion goes to “security and life safety for cruise ships.” Overall, Kummant claims that Amtrak receives $40 in federal funds per passenger, while highways are subsidized at a rate of $500–$700 per automobile. Moreover, Amtrak provides all of its own security, while airport security is a separate federal subsidy. Kummant added: “Let’s not even get into airport construction which is a miasma of state, federal and local tax breaks and tax refinancing and God knows what.”" - kingofinternet, on 09/15/2008, -0/+7so they'll finance it, AND build it?
- scoottie, on 09/15/2008, -1/+8we dont need all of China just 0.5 - 1% of their workforce
- joessandwich, on 09/15/2008, -0/+7Since I'm originally from SF and currently live in LA for work, I would LOVE this train.
- darkfire79, on 09/15/2008, -0/+7lol.. Amtrak. right. I wish we had a better passenger rail system here in the states. I live in Minneapolis and rail is the most expensive travel option there is.. at least, for any long distance trip. What a shame.
- Rippleeffect, on 09/15/2008, -1/+8It won't be built for a VERY long time. Not with our budget issues, which I do not see being resolved in my lifetime.
- arielh85, on 09/15/2008, -1/+8that would make my life complete.
- kublerross, on 09/15/2008, -0/+6which probably cost more than rebuilding them
- BPShirase, on 09/15/2008, -2/+8too soon
- inactive, on 09/15/2008, -1/+7Decent and fast public transit such as this is the solution to such traffic problems. Building more highways and flyovers won't help it much because population in big cities never decreases, only increases :S.
- Tolzmaniac, on 09/15/2008, -2/+8Damn Mayans and their prophecies.
- tallguyg, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5you'd sorta have to now wouldn't you?
- Homerr, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5Welcome to what Europeans have had for years! Yes, it is great and America needs this.
- ggacid, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5next time you do that trip, take the 15 from San Diego to the 210 West in Fontana (East of L.A.) That will take you to the 5 again and you'll skip the entire Irvine, Anaheim, Downtown L.A. area...
- whatever01, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5And you could start drinking while on the train. Hell, you could put in massage rooms too. Yes, there's money to be made.
- waxenpi, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5yes, i plan on using this!
- stigmataman, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5Yeah, nothing good ever comes out of those places ... oh wait, you wouldn't be able to spew your retarded views on this forum without San Francisco.
- kadio, on 09/15/2008, -0/+5why don't you just drive to the train station??
- saranagati, on 09/15/2008, -0/+4Yah it seems kind of sad that the plan is for us to get to the moon in less time than a bullet train can be built to travel 600 miles...
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