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Tax payer funded snake oil promises
Author: SuckingSound
Date: 04-06-2021 - 19:12
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Commenter Wrote:
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> > Former seniors must be really old. :)
>
> "I was so much older then.... I'm younger than
> that now...." from actual senior Bobby D...
>
> There's plenty of demand for jobs, and services,
> that are "over the hill" in the "basin" from the
> Coachella Valley, the Beaumont Pass communities,
> and more than enough potential demand from the
> "basin" and beyond, to the Valley from gambling,
> seasonal, and event tourism. This can be
> witnessed by the regular inbound and outbound
> gridlock in peaks, and even on busy weekends, now
> a regular feature on I-10 through the "pass"... I
> would expect little local commuting between
> destinations within the Valley though.
>
> The goal of regional connecting systems is to get
> those 40-60-80 mile plus average trips, into
> centers, onto the trains. This would open up
> equivalent freeway lane space for the 2-3-4 20
> mile trips on I-10, that would otherwise be used
> for that trip.
>
> This "entire" corridor (I-10 from the Coachella
> Valley to Santa Monica) has demonstrated the kind
> of "oberved congestion", that represents an
> existing real consumer driven transportation
> demand, that can be measured and modeled, and is
> one very important factor in establishing that
> there is a potentially real travel "need" that
> would or could be met by such services.
>
> As a component of a true "first world" fully
> integrated regional rail "system" a Coachella
> Valley short distance intercity and commute route,
> would connect not only, to the IE, OC, and LA as
> destinations, but also beyond to destinations as
> far away as the San Fernando Valley, Ventura, SB,
> SLO, and to Santa Clarita, and even connect to
> Mouses "evil" Palmdale.
When Union Pacific had taxpayers fund the Colton flyover project in 2013, UP promised Metrolink service to Palm Springs would start when the flyover was finished.
Service has yet to start!
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> Commenter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Former seniors must be really old. :)
>
> "I was so much older then.... I'm younger than
> that now...." from actual senior Bobby D...
>
> There's plenty of demand for jobs, and services,
> that are "over the hill" in the "basin" from the
> Coachella Valley, the Beaumont Pass communities,
> and more than enough potential demand from the
> "basin" and beyond, to the Valley from gambling,
> seasonal, and event tourism. This can be
> witnessed by the regular inbound and outbound
> gridlock in peaks, and even on busy weekends, now
> a regular feature on I-10 through the "pass"... I
> would expect little local commuting between
> destinations within the Valley though.
>
> The goal of regional connecting systems is to get
> those 40-60-80 mile plus average trips, into
> centers, onto the trains. This would open up
> equivalent freeway lane space for the 2-3-4 20
> mile trips on I-10, that would otherwise be used
> for that trip.
>
> This "entire" corridor (I-10 from the Coachella
> Valley to Santa Monica) has demonstrated the kind
> of "oberved congestion", that represents an
> existing real consumer driven transportation
> demand, that can be measured and modeled, and is
> one very important factor in establishing that
> there is a potentially real travel "need" that
> would or could be met by such services.
>
> As a component of a true "first world" fully
> integrated regional rail "system" a Coachella
> Valley short distance intercity and commute route,
> would connect not only, to the IE, OC, and LA as
> destinations, but also beyond to destinations as
> far away as the San Fernando Valley, Ventura, SB,
> SLO, and to Santa Clarita, and even connect to
> Mouses "evil" Palmdale.
When Union Pacific had taxpayers fund the Colton flyover project in 2013, UP promised Metrolink service to Palm Springs would start when the flyover was finished.
Service has yet to start!
