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Re: You could take a train to Coachella... (next year) and permanent service...well?
Author: BOB2
Date: 03-09-2019 - 18:53
How about running frequent, faster, and more affordable trains to "somewhere" there is actually an actual need?
Like in corridors, and between travel destinations, where our freeways are already gridlocked?
Now for a reality check on permanent IC and commuter corridor services to Indio/Palm Spring.... We are talking a full set of additional passenger tracks over Beaumont, and some other major projects to integrate that within the ROW, with capacity for up to 12 commute and IC round trips, at a cost (when I last did it ten years ago), of at least $500 million (which you could probably double, today).
What I find most interesting in this and the Dumbarton discussion, is that I don't know which fringe on the HSR issues is a worse set of useless HSR whiners.
Maybe, the one's who've been the chronic apologist's, who are now wringing their hands, all knickers in a twist, over our failed visionary fantasy, and over "sell out" Gavin for killing the sacred cow?
Or maybe, it's the crew of train hating idiots on talk radio, who are using gainsay and babbling nonsense about how Gavin is also a "sell out" for having the political cajones to stop the "runaway money train", while still trying to salvage something useful for the funds we've already pissed away, for us poor suckers, still stuck in traffic, who've been paying the bills for this gawdawful cluster f##k.
As Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say: "It's always something...."
Like in corridors, and between travel destinations, where our freeways are already gridlocked?
Now for a reality check on permanent IC and commuter corridor services to Indio/Palm Spring.... We are talking a full set of additional passenger tracks over Beaumont, and some other major projects to integrate that within the ROW, with capacity for up to 12 commute and IC round trips, at a cost (when I last did it ten years ago), of at least $500 million (which you could probably double, today).
What I find most interesting in this and the Dumbarton discussion, is that I don't know which fringe on the HSR issues is a worse set of useless HSR whiners.
Maybe, the one's who've been the chronic apologist's, who are now wringing their hands, all knickers in a twist, over our failed visionary fantasy, and over "sell out" Gavin for killing the sacred cow?
Or maybe, it's the crew of train hating idiots on talk radio, who are using gainsay and babbling nonsense about how Gavin is also a "sell out" for having the political cajones to stop the "runaway money train", while still trying to salvage something useful for the funds we've already pissed away, for us poor suckers, still stuck in traffic, who've been paying the bills for this gawdawful cluster f##k.
As Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say: "It's always something...."
