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Yep, choices does have consequences.
Author: BADBRAIN2
Date: 02-05-2025 - 16:57
BOB2- Wrote:
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> Mar a lago time Wrote:
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> > another worthless government work Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > Commenter Wrote:
> > >
> >
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>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > A new study looks at adding 15 additional
> > > > long-distance routes to Amtrak, which would
> > > > dramatically expand access.
> > >
> > > Your tax dollars hard at work, "studying" and
> > > making pretty maps.
> > >
> > > I could have whipped this out in three
> minutes.
> >
> > > But since I am not affiliated with a major
> > > political party, lobbying organization and
> > > research university, and couldn't bill the
> > federal
> > > government a few million dollars, I was told
> to
> > > sit down, shut up, pay my taxes or have the
> IRS
> > > come after me.
> >
> >
> > Yup. Rail could be simple but government has to
> > overspend and overdo everything. Now we have a
> > reaction against all that in Trump.
>
> To every action there is an opposite but equal
> reaction. That's the Third Law of motion, IIRC?
>
> It applies to the kind of stupidity we have seen
> displayed in the gold-plated taxpayer CAHSRA
> fiasco.
>
> When we make more of these decisions based on
> sound economics and good analysis of the
> cost-benefit tradeoffs, then we seem to have more
> successful and real business models like
> Brightline.
>
> Well managed projects like the Goldline Extensions
> by the small and focused GL Construction Authority
> have come in on-time and under budget by using
> things like "design build" contracting with
> competent oversight to assure proper bids and
> costs.
>
> And things like the Crenshaw LRT line are still
> not open, four years late, and overbudget, because
> the MTA uses the "change order" racket (bid low,
> then make it up on inflated change orders, and
> massive cost overruns).
>
> Or, then there is the truly horrific CAHSRA
> contracting model of putting "contractors" in
> charge of the contracting and giving them a
> percentage of the work they manage, and we then
> wonder why we are building miles of needless
> overdesigned gold-plated bridges in the San
> Joaquin Valley and HSR in CA costs nearly 4 times
> as much per mile.
>
> The good or bad choices we make have consequences.
> The good or bad behaviors we engage in, allow, or
> enable have consequences. And yet, there are still
> many folks who continue to be shocked, when bad
> choices or behaviors result in bad consequences.
> Go figure?
Says the know-it-all that shouted down folks on this very forum for not supporting Prop1A (2008) !
You suck as a "transpo pro" for your love of Prop1A(08) !
17-years-later, you claim to "know better"...LOL!
I can see why you troll AP, do nothing!
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> Mar a lago time Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > another worthless government work Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Commenter Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > A new study looks at adding 15 additional
> > > > long-distance routes to Amtrak, which would
> > > > dramatically expand access.
> > >
> > > Your tax dollars hard at work, "studying" and
> > > making pretty maps.
> > >
> > > I could have whipped this out in three
> minutes.
> >
> > > But since I am not affiliated with a major
> > > political party, lobbying organization and
> > > research university, and couldn't bill the
> > federal
> > > government a few million dollars, I was told
> to
> > > sit down, shut up, pay my taxes or have the
> IRS
> > > come after me.
> >
> >
> > Yup. Rail could be simple but government has to
> > overspend and overdo everything. Now we have a
> > reaction against all that in Trump.
>
> To every action there is an opposite but equal
> reaction. That's the Third Law of motion, IIRC?
>
> It applies to the kind of stupidity we have seen
> displayed in the gold-plated taxpayer CAHSRA
> fiasco.
>
> When we make more of these decisions based on
> sound economics and good analysis of the
> cost-benefit tradeoffs, then we seem to have more
> successful and real business models like
> Brightline.
>
> Well managed projects like the Goldline Extensions
> by the small and focused GL Construction Authority
> have come in on-time and under budget by using
> things like "design build" contracting with
> competent oversight to assure proper bids and
> costs.
>
> And things like the Crenshaw LRT line are still
> not open, four years late, and overbudget, because
> the MTA uses the "change order" racket (bid low,
> then make it up on inflated change orders, and
> massive cost overruns).
>
> Or, then there is the truly horrific CAHSRA
> contracting model of putting "contractors" in
> charge of the contracting and giving them a
> percentage of the work they manage, and we then
> wonder why we are building miles of needless
> overdesigned gold-plated bridges in the San
> Joaquin Valley and HSR in CA costs nearly 4 times
> as much per mile.
>
> The good or bad choices we make have consequences.
> The good or bad behaviors we engage in, allow, or
> enable have consequences. And yet, there are still
> many folks who continue to be shocked, when bad
> choices or behaviors result in bad consequences.
> Go figure?
Says the know-it-all that shouted down folks on this very forum for not supporting Prop1A (2008) !
You suck as a "transpo pro" for your love of Prop1A(08) !
17-years-later, you claim to "know better"...LOL!
I can see why you troll AP, do nothing!
