Re: BOB2 ! "16 miles of tunnels would stretch under the Tehachapi Mountains"- NOPE!!!
Author: BOB2
Date: 10-26-2015 - 09:18
Ralph seems to have an interesting spin. I agree that there is some very real cognitive disconnect at PB among some folks I know. If they continue to listen to the primary idiot at the MTA and keep proposing really costly and stupid alternatives, then this is a likely outcome. It's not necessary to build this much tunnel under Saugus Mountain, or the Tehachipi's, but there is no adult supervision at CHSRA, there never was, even under previous management teams.
Then, of course, we have the usual spin by those who find these things to be inherently impossible, in their opinions. Which, as usual, is clearly based upon their advanced degree's in engineering. Some folks find everything impossible, since everything part of the vast conspiracy, and if we listened to them, we would probably still be living in the caves, as it would be too risky to go out.
Too bad about all of those miles and miles of tunnels we already have through these very same mountains and earthquake faults bringing things like water. And isn't it true that modern engineering is too stupid to do things like. Therefore, the new tunnel in Switzerland must not be real due to the difficulty of going through the Alps, with all of those earthquake faults, either?
I am still celebrating the small OCTA victory for taxpayers, travelers, and fiscal sanity in meeting real travel needs in the rethink of the LA Anaheim.. I expect more of the same kind of "refinements" here, too. It won't be built at all, otherwise.
Some folks do apparently know better, and maybe, that is why some of this was "leaked" by some of those same "disgruntled" engineers who do know better, and yet, still would like to build a cost effective system, which actually meets our real travel needs?