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Re: And, how many rail projects have you worked on?
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-01-2019 - 12:42
So how many rail projects have you worked on in "your" career? I know of no reason they can't or might not do something like a phased implementation...
Do you know that there are actually operations all over the world that use both diesel and electric propulsion on the very same choo-choo tracks? The vast wealth of information and knowledge you seem to possess, would seem to be that the only "real" high speed rail service, for any and all markets, is some variation of the most expensive "super high" speed systems that can be built, ignoring the "super high" costs to build super high speed, and the "super high" operating costs, and the "super high" expensive ticket prices, needed to break even....
Phased implementation, which would be much faster, to construct, and put into operation, generating cash flow with existing Tier IV Siemens technology like they are using in Florida, would not be mutually exclusive, with phased plans to electrify operations and increase speeds, as they develop their ridership and market share.
And, when is NDOT going to scrap all of those Tier IV diesel trucks they use, and ban the hundreds of earlier Tier diesel buses going to the casinos? If I had a nickel for every time in my career I heard politicians, or their flunkies, making such claims and prattling sweet nothings to pander to the press and public, I'd be richer than Warren Buffet...
You keep pulling more of these interesting tidbits out, and posting them, as if to somehow prove how wrong I am. The problem is that these interesting tidbits don't actually prove much of anything, except for your unquestioning loyalty to really expensive technologies and mismanaged taxpayer financed projects, regardless of the costs or any attempt to measure purported benefits.
You aren't running up billable hours over the holiday weekend, are you? Is there a push on to bill out existing PR contracts, before the legislature starts moving the rest of the rail money to those mundane "bookend" projects that actually provide real benefits to millions of Californians? Because, if you're not on the CHSRA's payroll, you really should be....
As I said, with enough practice, you're gonna get real good at this.....
Do you know that there are actually operations all over the world that use both diesel and electric propulsion on the very same choo-choo tracks? The vast wealth of information and knowledge you seem to possess, would seem to be that the only "real" high speed rail service, for any and all markets, is some variation of the most expensive "super high" speed systems that can be built, ignoring the "super high" costs to build super high speed, and the "super high" operating costs, and the "super high" expensive ticket prices, needed to break even....
Phased implementation, which would be much faster, to construct, and put into operation, generating cash flow with existing Tier IV Siemens technology like they are using in Florida, would not be mutually exclusive, with phased plans to electrify operations and increase speeds, as they develop their ridership and market share.
And, when is NDOT going to scrap all of those Tier IV diesel trucks they use, and ban the hundreds of earlier Tier diesel buses going to the casinos? If I had a nickel for every time in my career I heard politicians, or their flunkies, making such claims and prattling sweet nothings to pander to the press and public, I'd be richer than Warren Buffet...
You keep pulling more of these interesting tidbits out, and posting them, as if to somehow prove how wrong I am. The problem is that these interesting tidbits don't actually prove much of anything, except for your unquestioning loyalty to really expensive technologies and mismanaged taxpayer financed projects, regardless of the costs or any attempt to measure purported benefits.
You aren't running up billable hours over the holiday weekend, are you? Is there a push on to bill out existing PR contracts, before the legislature starts moving the rest of the rail money to those mundane "bookend" projects that actually provide real benefits to millions of Californians? Because, if you're not on the CHSRA's payroll, you really should be....
As I said, with enough practice, you're gonna get real good at this.....
