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Re: Southwest HSR | CAHSR Brightline West Caltrain High Desert Corridor Combined , no rail-antiquary in the valley 2035
Author: RHH
Date: 06-26-2025 - 13:05
Huddle around general obligation Wrote:
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> Ah Yes, the "HDC" Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yeah well...
> >
> > And, if we were only the Deutsche Bahn...,
> right?
> >
> >
> > The "High Desert Corridor" would potentially
> also
> > allow for direct Brightline Service to from Las
> > Vegas directly to LAUS in under 3 hours via HDR
> > over to a Palmdale connection (which is a good
> bit
> > less than the Metrolink transfer at Rancho
> > Cucamonga).
> >
> > This was studied before the Victorville to
> Rancho
> > Cucamonga connection back in the early 2000's,
> to
> > run on a ROW shared with the LA High Desert
> > Corridor "LA truck bypass" an interstate
> quality
> > toll funded route from the I-5 to Victorville
> and
> > I-15. The concept here was that the Brightline
> > trains would run in the shared ROW, with almost
> a
> > "freebie" in terms of grade separation shared
> with
> > the High Desert toll road.
> >
> > Caltrans has since given up ever trying to
> relieve
> > any of our avoidable urban congestion and/or
> get
> > those unnecessary truck trips out of the basin,
> by
> > howling mobs of screaming green weenies, who
> are
> > okay with those trucks polluting the lungs of
> > urban residents, and costing truckers (oh. and
> us
> > "consumers") "millions and millions" of dollars
> > form the hours of delay by coming across routes
> > like the 210. Oh well, but the rail option was
> > kept and even "cleared" if I can recall
> correctly
> > (????).
> >
> > Now, back on planet earth, where time continues
> to
> > run, and money is drained away on even
> completing
> > the first segment of the line in the Valley,
> then
> > for costly and unproductive gold-plated things
> > like Pacheco, or the grossly gold-plated
> > Bakerfield to LA segment, don't hold your
> breath.
> >
> > The shark has to keep moving to breath, and
> thus
> > it is with the CAHSRA runaway money train. So,
> we
> > must provide this kind of "hope" to those 2/3's
> of
> > folks polled who "wished" that "someday", maybe
> on
> > a distant planet "far, far away", that we will
> > finally have some sort of actual "useful" HSR
> to
> > ride at all.
>
>
> You are the one that thought a general bond ballot
> measure in 2008 was the greatest thing you had
> ever seen since passing your mirror.
>
> Stonehenge was constructed in several phases
> beginning about 3100 BC and continuing until about
> 1600 BC.
>
> [www.american-rails.com]
> 4623578923896893479848.jpg
That was before the goddamn blacks, Jews, orientals and Mexicans took over the state. My studies were sound…
-------------------------------------------------------
> Ah Yes, the "HDC" Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yeah well...
> >
> > And, if we were only the Deutsche Bahn...,
> right?
> >
> >
> > The "High Desert Corridor" would potentially
> also
> > allow for direct Brightline Service to from Las
> > Vegas directly to LAUS in under 3 hours via HDR
> > over to a Palmdale connection (which is a good
> bit
> > less than the Metrolink transfer at Rancho
> > Cucamonga).
> >
> > This was studied before the Victorville to
> Rancho
> > Cucamonga connection back in the early 2000's,
> to
> > run on a ROW shared with the LA High Desert
> > Corridor "LA truck bypass" an interstate
> quality
> > toll funded route from the I-5 to Victorville
> and
> > I-15. The concept here was that the Brightline
> > trains would run in the shared ROW, with almost
> a
> > "freebie" in terms of grade separation shared
> with
> > the High Desert toll road.
> >
> > Caltrans has since given up ever trying to
> relieve
> > any of our avoidable urban congestion and/or
> get
> > those unnecessary truck trips out of the basin,
> by
> > howling mobs of screaming green weenies, who
> are
> > okay with those trucks polluting the lungs of
> > urban residents, and costing truckers (oh. and
> us
> > "consumers") "millions and millions" of dollars
> > form the hours of delay by coming across routes
> > like the 210. Oh well, but the rail option was
> > kept and even "cleared" if I can recall
> correctly
> > (????).
> >
> > Now, back on planet earth, where time continues
> to
> > run, and money is drained away on even
> completing
> > the first segment of the line in the Valley,
> then
> > for costly and unproductive gold-plated things
> > like Pacheco, or the grossly gold-plated
> > Bakerfield to LA segment, don't hold your
> breath.
> >
> > The shark has to keep moving to breath, and
> thus
> > it is with the CAHSRA runaway money train. So,
> we
> > must provide this kind of "hope" to those 2/3's
> of
> > folks polled who "wished" that "someday", maybe
> on
> > a distant planet "far, far away", that we will
> > finally have some sort of actual "useful" HSR
> to
> > ride at all.
>
>
> You are the one that thought a general bond ballot
> measure in 2008 was the greatest thing you had
> ever seen since passing your mirror.
>
> Stonehenge was constructed in several phases
> beginning about 3100 BC and continuing until about
> 1600 BC.
>
> [www.american-rails.com]
> 4623578923896893479848.jpg
That was before the goddamn blacks, Jews, orientals and Mexicans took over the state. My studies were sound…
