In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
They literally can't build a new train line in California for billions...
In reply to tester (Forum Supporter) :
Your graphic is very deceptive. The rail line will certainly never be completed. They will finish building it at some point, but it will be maybe 25% of what is was supposed to be (in the least useful location) and cost many many multiples of what the entire line was supposed to cost.
Someday, someone will tell the story of this and it will be an absurd fanciful story of insane waste and graft.
E_NinjA said:
Did this for a family trip once. All just for the kid to win his week long baseball tourney in San Diego. With children, this is 16 hours minimum. Never left the state. California is like its own country, mostly full of idiots.
Nice that you are here
aircooled said:In reply to tester (Forum Supporter) :
Your graphic is very deceptive. The rail line will certainly never be completed. They will finish building it at some point, but it will be maybe 25% of what is was supposed to be (in the least useful location) and cost many many multiples of what the entire line was supposed to cost.
Someday, someone will tell the story of this and it will be an absurd fanciful story of insane waste and graft.
Unfortunately, no, it won't. It will be an absurd, fanciful story of how lazy, selfish Americans just refuse to be smart and civilized like Europeans.
Meme unrelated:
Duke said:
Unfortunately, no, it won't. It will be an absurd, fanciful story of how lazy, selfish Americans just refuse to be smart and civilized like Europeans.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
When the California high speed rail debacle inevitably fails at huge cost to the taxpayers, it will not be perceived as the concept's fault. It will be blamed on the American public for being too stupid and lazy to understand a superior idea when one is forced upon them.
But that is as close to patio territory as I am willing to go.
In reply to Duke :
Ah! Perhaps we aren't so far apart on this issue as I had first supposed.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
They literally can't build a new train line in California for billions...
Does this picture show me that they would rather build a hwy than a rail system?
In reply to 914Driver :
I printed the Cthulhu poster out and hung it on the wall at work.
In reply to 914Driver :
Bringing this one back from pg. 666
In reply to MyMiatas :
No, I can see how that looks like that. They need to build some rather large structures (out of concrete, high CO2 creator, BTW) to get around things (e.g roads). Some of them are pretty massive. It's yet another part of the absurdity.
I have driven past it a few times and there is a huge sign on it bragging about how many jobs it creating. Might as well brag about how much taxpayer money you are spending having people dig a circular trench, while you pay more people to fill it behind them!
I am a fan of both railroads and high speed rail BTW. But everything has it's place.
In reply to 914Driver :
I'm really torn between that one or my standard yard sign this year.
Maybe I should do a two sided one for the yard.
In reply to RevRico :
I have joked for years about legally changing my name to None of the Above and running for office.
914Driver said:
Imagine watching a Taylor Swift concert, and they break in every five minutes to show a football game.
In reply to RevRico :
I always wanted to put this sign in my yard since it is effectively what any of these signs are saying:
You guys are all wrong. My guy will fix all the problems. In one week. Hes got a guy.
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