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Re: They're at 17 billion by next year???? LMAO.... You are working overtime aren't you?
Author: BOB2
Date: 07-28-2021 - 21:48
I was right, you are working overtime....
How about 8 from all exisitng sources maximum, and nothing more to finish the gold plated bloated segment from Chowchilla to Wasso, then we turn it over to Stacey and her "slow thinking" "southern" Siemens engines to operate at 125, some time in this century...
If you want, we'll make it look just like a "real" HSR for you, by casting one of those giant fiber glass Chinese high speed "noses" and "strapping it on" the front of a Siemnens engine.... As they pass the gridlocked traffic on 99 and 680 no one will even know it's only going 125 and isn't "real" HSR....
How about 0 additioal taxpayer dollars pissed away on this bloated gold plated "runaway money train" from infrastructure bill.
Instead... How about 600 million to Stacey's Altamont Project, to save this stranded investment between Chowchilla and Wasco. and how about 2.2 billion to Hasan's Del Mar Bluffs, and about 500 million to the Metrolink core projects between Burbank and Anaheim (aasuming the State surplus and/or CAHSRA is using some of that money you may be "double conting" to meet it's supposed "commitment" to MTA, has taken care of the LAUS run through).
How about another 600 million from infrastructure two to the LOSSAN North/Coast line improvements, and another billion to Stacey for the Altamont/Dumbaton connection improvements, and another 500 hundred million to LA Coachella, and 1 billion to a cheaper faster better connection to Palmdale to connect Brightline to directly to LAUS, and another 500 millioh to starte electrication on LOSSAN and to Palmdale on the new improved faster better cheapdr connection?
And all five billion from next years supposed State surplus? How about we use that to match the items above at around a 60/40 Federal State match ratio (the total cost of the list above should be multiplied by that ratio to estimate total costs) and some of what's left to build high performing urban project to build projects like the Crenshaw/South Bay LRT line extension to the Purple line and the Red line in Hollywood.
How about nothing more for this fiasco, other than is required to finish the gold plated line from Chowchilla to Wasco? How about we desolve the boondoggle politically and legally, and change the performance requirement through legislative action, and turn it over to an at least minimally competent rail agency like the San Joaqin Authority.
Imagine that we can then prioritize and build rail passenger and "high speed" improvements that we actually can show need for and even use.... And, ones that are properly planned, and that we can afford to build, and to operate, on trains that we can actually ride at an affordable price... And, where we can justify the level of speed, cost, and infrastucture investment on cost/benefit analysis, as opposed to "cost is no object" "runaway money train" "visions" of a CAHSRA which are seems to be the product of LSD consumption?
How about the taxpayer and voters not being lied to anymore, and spending their scarce taxpayer resources on things we need and use, and not giving a blank taxpayer check to unscrupulous, greedy, liar's and incompetent's bent on wasting still nore billions on the current CAHSRA fiasco?
LES Wrote:
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> Current budget til next spring
> 3 from C&T is here
> 1 FY10 is here
> 4.2 will be here in Sept.
> 2-3 from infrastructure bill
> 2-3 from Infra 2.0
> 5 billion from next years surplus
>
>
How about 8 from all exisitng sources maximum, and nothing more to finish the gold plated bloated segment from Chowchilla to Wasso, then we turn it over to Stacey and her "slow thinking" "southern" Siemens engines to operate at 125, some time in this century...
If you want, we'll make it look just like a "real" HSR for you, by casting one of those giant fiber glass Chinese high speed "noses" and "strapping it on" the front of a Siemnens engine.... As they pass the gridlocked traffic on 99 and 680 no one will even know it's only going 125 and isn't "real" HSR....
How about 0 additioal taxpayer dollars pissed away on this bloated gold plated "runaway money train" from infrastructure bill.
Instead... How about 600 million to Stacey's Altamont Project, to save this stranded investment between Chowchilla and Wasco. and how about 2.2 billion to Hasan's Del Mar Bluffs, and about 500 million to the Metrolink core projects between Burbank and Anaheim (aasuming the State surplus and/or CAHSRA is using some of that money you may be "double conting" to meet it's supposed "commitment" to MTA, has taken care of the LAUS run through).
How about another 600 million from infrastructure two to the LOSSAN North/Coast line improvements, and another billion to Stacey for the Altamont/Dumbaton connection improvements, and another 500 hundred million to LA Coachella, and 1 billion to a cheaper faster better connection to Palmdale to connect Brightline to directly to LAUS, and another 500 millioh to starte electrication on LOSSAN and to Palmdale on the new improved faster better cheapdr connection?
And all five billion from next years supposed State surplus? How about we use that to match the items above at around a 60/40 Federal State match ratio (the total cost of the list above should be multiplied by that ratio to estimate total costs) and some of what's left to build high performing urban project to build projects like the Crenshaw/South Bay LRT line extension to the Purple line and the Red line in Hollywood.
How about nothing more for this fiasco, other than is required to finish the gold plated line from Chowchilla to Wasco? How about we desolve the boondoggle politically and legally, and change the performance requirement through legislative action, and turn it over to an at least minimally competent rail agency like the San Joaqin Authority.
Imagine that we can then prioritize and build rail passenger and "high speed" improvements that we actually can show need for and even use.... And, ones that are properly planned, and that we can afford to build, and to operate, on trains that we can actually ride at an affordable price... And, where we can justify the level of speed, cost, and infrastucture investment on cost/benefit analysis, as opposed to "cost is no object" "runaway money train" "visions" of a CAHSRA which are seems to be the product of LSD consumption?
How about the taxpayer and voters not being lied to anymore, and spending their scarce taxpayer resources on things we need and use, and not giving a blank taxpayer check to unscrupulous, greedy, liar's and incompetent's bent on wasting still nore billions on the current CAHSRA fiasco?
LES Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Current budget til next spring
> 3 from C&T is here
> 1 FY10 is here
> 4.2 will be here in Sept.
> 2-3 from infrastructure bill
> 2-3 from Infra 2.0
> 5 billion from next years surplus
>
>
