primitives discuss high-speed rail lines

[GOBUCKS]

I had a professor who flew up from Southern California to Northern California twice a week to teach.

 
His time was wasted.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Like alternative fuels, it's an idea that would make great sense in a world without (Relatively) cheap oil.  As long as we live in a cheap-oil world, though, it will never make economic sense on its own, outside a select few densely-populated corridors.

[thundley4]

Like alternative fuels, it's an idea that would make great sense in a world without (Relatively) cheap oil.  As long as we live in a cheap-oil world, though, it will never make economic sense on its own, outside a select few densely-populated corridors.

If Lord Zero and the Dims get their way, oil will not be cheap.

[Celtic Rose]

 
His time was wasted.

What, you sayin' I'm stupid or something 

[GOBUCKS]

What, you sayin' I'm stupid or something

Absolutely not. In fact, had I not known better, I would have sworn you were educated in one of the decent and
civilized parts of this country. Sometimes there's just no accounting for the things human nature can overcome. A
lifetime spent in California is a terrible handicap, but many have surmounted it, including the greatest of all post-Revolution
Americans, Ronald Wilson Reagan.

[AllosaursRus]

Outside of the Northeast corridor hellhole, and maybe the Cook County hellhole, public transit systems are invariably a black hole that moonbats love to shovel money into. If you look at ridership, in almost every case it would be cheaper to buy each rider a car. "Light rail" is a democrat term that means billions of dollars to run empty trains around medium size cities. We already pay hundreds of millions to run empty buses around the same cities.

Out here in Spokane they have bus routes. I've road them a total of 3 times. Every time there were no more than a dozen people on a bus that could haul 50! The whole thing is being funded by the state and county. Before it was sucked into the gubmint, it actually made money. It's lost money every year since being taken over by politicians.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Rail should replace air travel.

How would you ever get to your socialist utopias of France, Cuba & Venezuela?

Underwater bullet trains?

[Randy]

It won't be free. It will actually be kind of expensive

That's no lie! They estimate a 50-60 buck fare from Orlando to Tampa, 15 for commuters. Screw that, it's freakin' 85 miles. You can drive for a buck or 3 and have a ride beyond the station when you arrive.