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Re Koppian dystopia? CHSRA was and still is a completely harebrained scheme from day one
Author: BOB2
Date: 08-26-2018 - 21:37
Yes, back to its inception out of Project California was, has always been, and continues to be a harebrained scheme. A scheme that was concocted by a handful of politicians (mostly appointed and not elected) who decided that we needed to spend 70 billion dollars in taxpayer money on a "bullet train". Or else, we wouldn't be cool as the Germans, Japanese, French, or Chinese, Just ignore the fact that it has been planned and promoted without any regard to relieving any observed travel deficiency, or meeting any identifiable travel need, and build something very fast.
That "all of the cool counties have one" nonsense sounded to me, back then, more like a classic case of political HSR "penis envy", used as a justification by people with a "trough" to fill with taxpayer dollars, and not any kind of rational "adult" argument that this meets any real or pressing transportation need we actually have.
And, from your always enlightening responses, I can clearly see, that except for pissing away many more billions of dollars in taxpayer money, that not much has really changed in the "culture" of the CHSRA. It was all bull$#it then, the justifications are still bull$#it now, and the bull$#it is getting even more expensive. And bull$#it, as the great philosopher George Carlin so often observed, is still bad for you.
So no, we probably don't agree at all, on this fiasco. The fact that you have to resort to this "build it and they will come" sophistry, and this "visionary" flummery to sell this pile to the "rubes" (aka voters and taxpayers) in such a manner, in order to pick their pockets to pay for it, in and of itself, shows the incredible weakness of the case you make for this project.
But, maybe I'm absolutely and completely wrong. Which, of course, is why the CHSRA project is on schedule, under cost, moving along without a problem. Which is probably why this project has garnered nothing but praise for the incredible quality of the planning work that was done for it, for the fine quality of the seemingly infinite number of revised "business plans" that have been prepared for it, for the competence that's been demonstrated time and again in project management, and the quality of workmanship on what's been delivered, thus far, right?
That "all of the cool counties have one" nonsense sounded to me, back then, more like a classic case of political HSR "penis envy", used as a justification by people with a "trough" to fill with taxpayer dollars, and not any kind of rational "adult" argument that this meets any real or pressing transportation need we actually have.
And, from your always enlightening responses, I can clearly see, that except for pissing away many more billions of dollars in taxpayer money, that not much has really changed in the "culture" of the CHSRA. It was all bull$#it then, the justifications are still bull$#it now, and the bull$#it is getting even more expensive. And bull$#it, as the great philosopher George Carlin so often observed, is still bad for you.
So no, we probably don't agree at all, on this fiasco. The fact that you have to resort to this "build it and they will come" sophistry, and this "visionary" flummery to sell this pile to the "rubes" (aka voters and taxpayers) in such a manner, in order to pick their pockets to pay for it, in and of itself, shows the incredible weakness of the case you make for this project.
But, maybe I'm absolutely and completely wrong. Which, of course, is why the CHSRA project is on schedule, under cost, moving along without a problem. Which is probably why this project has garnered nothing but praise for the incredible quality of the planning work that was done for it, for the fine quality of the seemingly infinite number of revised "business plans" that have been prepared for it, for the competence that's been demonstrated time and again in project management, and the quality of workmanship on what's been delivered, thus far, right?
