I never said rubber tire in 30 (I have made CSULB to CSUF in 23 minutes with my rubber wheel wagon) .

This is about moving on STEEL WHEELS on STEEL RAIL .

...with no station stops, LAUPT to Anaheim takes 30 minutes by rail (even behind an obsolete steam hulk like 3751).

Metrolink LAUPT to ARTIC takes 43 minutes .

http://www.metrolinktrains.com/schedules/line/name/Orange%20County/service_id/1152.html

How much money should we spend
to save 13 minutes ?

I agree with you about the waste of the 2008 "HSR" tax grift !

I would vote yes on a 90mph rail plant upgrade LAUPT to Sacramento via Tehachapi (it's long past time to shake off the SP passenger ban).



BOB2 Wrote:
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> OCTA has essentially taken over this moribund
> project from the dufus's at the CHSRA (and LOSSAN
> from the dufus's at LACTA) and want to use our
> scarce "HSR" taxpayer dollars to do something
> sensible, achievable, far more cost effective, and
> where peak 15 and off peak 30 minute service is
> actually needed in this highly congested LOSSAN
> intercity urban corridor.....and yet, it would
> appear to be perceived as a bad thing why?
>
> It sure sounds like good news to this taxpayer
> sick of the enormous waste of both opportunities
> and resources at the CHSRA, and as a motorist sick
> and tired of our gridlocked freeways....and our
> still piss poor alternatives,