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Re: California high-speed rail: The next stop is bankruptcy
Author: BOB R
Date: 04-03-2011 - 11:30
Brains, I've heard your line against Reason many times before, including twice at the Steel Wheels Conference last month. Neither of these allusions was intentionally factual, the speakers simply parroted the line that Reason is funded by "big oil" or some other malevolent wizard of Oz with deep pockets. So there's no bias in that gummint entity named the California High Speed Rail Authority because of the purity of its funding?
When you start arguing the facts and merits of Reason's argument maybe someone will take your comments seriously. Since nobody in the High-Speed-Rah!-Rah! ranks seems willing, maybe it's you (and by extension, other critics) who are spreading disinformation.
As far as gridlock, CAHSRA doesn't even claim that the end-to-end NorCal to SoCal link will have much effect on localized highway congestion which is more properly being solved by entities such as Metrolink and Capitol Corridor.
The Tea Partiers you decry don't seem to mind walking, as in marching to state capitols and DC pointing out the obvious -- we can't afford the level of gummint we have, let alone allow it to expand into areas of services, high-speed rail being one of the most unnecessary uses of tax money. Hard choices are demanded.
When you start arguing the facts and merits of Reason's argument maybe someone will take your comments seriously. Since nobody in the High-Speed-Rah!-Rah! ranks seems willing, maybe it's you (and by extension, other critics) who are spreading disinformation.
As far as gridlock, CAHSRA doesn't even claim that the end-to-end NorCal to SoCal link will have much effect on localized highway congestion which is more properly being solved by entities such as Metrolink and Capitol Corridor.
The Tea Partiers you decry don't seem to mind walking, as in marching to state capitols and DC pointing out the obvious -- we can't afford the level of gummint we have, let alone allow it to expand into areas of services, high-speed rail being one of the most unnecessary uses of tax money. Hard choices are demanded.
