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Re: Fast Train to Failure

Author: Ed Workman

Date: 12-06-2018 - 13:19

I see some of the commenters on that site spout the same nonsense "Oh but it's a good idea" kind of crap.
Of course ANYONE who likes the present CaCAHSR totally misses the points carefully enumerated in the article
Why is there ANY justification whatsoever for a deeply flawed, corrupt and [probably criminally] incompetent project????
Is VArtanoff defending incompetence etc???
If such incompetence was part of "Eisenhower's Interstate" plan, there would be very few miles.
Yes, hiway projects overrun estimates [and I'm not including the Bay Bridge BEatoff, that's a horseturd of a different color]
BUT, those overruns are not a given and have been historically MUCH LESS than, oh say, the Channel Tunnel, subways worldwide, etc
I strongly urge y'all Sunny Brook Farmers to look up the studies by that Scandanavian professor that explain the history of stupid projects. One title IIRC is "Why the Worst Projects Get Built", and there are several others, Australia to Denmark and all the duds in between.
oops gotta go, Tinkerbell is dying and I gotta clap to save her

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Fast Train to Failure	Bill	12-06-2018 - 08:36
Re: Fast Train to Failure	Taxpayer	12-06-2018 - 09:18
Re: Fast Train to Failure	david vartanoff	12-06-2018 - 10:18
Speaking of which...	Commenter	12-06-2018 - 12:07
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Re: Fast Train to Failure	Ed Workman	12-06-2018 - 13:19
Re: Fast Train to Failure-Yep, but then what?	BOB2	12-06-2018 - 11:26
Re: Fast Train to Failure-Yep, but then what?	synonymouse	12-06-2018 - 14:01
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Re: Fast Train to Failure-Yep, but then what?	Clem	12-06-2018 - 21:08
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Ed Workman Wrote:
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> I see some of the commenters on that site spout
> the same nonsense "Oh but it's a good idea" kind
> of crap.
> Of course ANYONE who likes the present CaCAHSR
> totally misses the points carefully enumerated in
> the article
> Why is there ANY justification whatsoever for a
> deeply flawed, corrupt and  incompetent
> project????
> Is VArtanoff defending incompetence etc???
> If such incompetence was part of "Eisenhower's
> Interstate" plan, there would be very few miles.
> Yes, hiway projects overrun estimates 
> BUT, those overruns are not a given and have been
> historically MUCH LESS than, oh say, the Channel
> Tunnel, subways worldwide, etc
> I strongly urge y'all Sunny Brook Farmers to look
> up the studies by that Scandanavian professor that
> explain the history of stupid projects.  One title
> IIRC is "Why the Worst Projects Get Built", and
> there are several others, Australia to Denmark and
> all the duds in between.
> oops gotta go, Tinkerbell is dying and I gotta
> clap to save her

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