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Re: What happened with California HSR?
Author: Freericks
Date: 11-05-2008 - 10:36
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> Talk about pouring money down a rathole. BARTD
> started out with directors appointed by the
> Governor but frittered away so much money it lost
> all credibility with the taxpayers. So the law
> authorizing BARTD was amended by the initiative
> process to make the directors stand for election.
> If you were ever exposed to the inefficiencies and
> over-layering of the BARTD buracracy, you'd be
> absolutely appalled. HSR will suffer a similar
> fate (at your wallet's expense too). The SNCF is
> part of France's gross national debt.
SNCF seems to be operating very fast trains that are getting people places quite nicely.
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> Talk about pouring money down a rathole. BARTD
> started out with directors appointed by the
> Governor but frittered away so much money it lost
> all credibility with the taxpayers. So the law
> authorizing BARTD was amended by the initiative
> process to make the directors stand for election.
> If you were ever exposed to the inefficiencies and
> over-layering of the BARTD buracracy, you'd be
> absolutely appalled. HSR will suffer a similar
> fate (at your wallet's expense too). The SNCF is
> part of France's gross national debt.
SNCF seems to be operating very fast trains that are getting people places quite nicely.
