It was way cool.

BOB2 Wrote:
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> 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.....