California High Speed Rail is Fine; And the Wild Scrutiny of Transit Projects in the US

[Yavin4]

We have thrown trillions of dollars over the years on massive highway projects without question. Yet, public transportation projects are examined like a colonoscopy.

[republianmushroom]

1. High speed rail is only one leg of a three legged trip

[Shipwack]

2. What do you mean by that? nt

[republianmushroom]

5. the first leg is getting to a station the second leg is the high speed rail the third leg

is from high speed rail to your designation. Three legs.
Same as air plane travel.

[Shipwack]

13. Oh, ok. Thank you for the explanation!

[Yavin4]

3. That's fine. Just build more.

Once a section is complete, just build more.

[demosincebirth]

4. It's going to be a money pit for sure.

[republianmushroom]

6. Calif. high speed rail is one hell of an money pit.

Cost sky rocketed, rail length shortened. Google it.

[demosincebirth]

7. That's the one I'm referring to. It will quadruple in

price if it’s ever completed.

[republianmushroom]

8. you nailed it

[McKim]

10. Compare the Money Pit for Each Family

Compare the money pit of each family having to own and maintain a car and insurance to travel from one city to another! If we had high speed rail between the coasts and up and down the coasts it would relieve many of the burden of car ownership and it would be better for the environment. This is the job of a federal government. We can do so much more collectively!
War is the ultimate money pit!

[Yavin4]

12. So is every Highway project in America.

So too was the bullet train project in Japan.

[msongs]

9. original intent of CA rail was hijacked which lead to the current mess...

it was supposed to connect LA to SF going up the unpopulated west side of the central valley with few if any stops. well all the lobbyists got it moved to follow the route of hiway 99 which ran through a series of large towns and cities on the east side of the valley. this made rail more accesible to more people but slowed it down and now it is not the high speed straight shot but a glorified local commuter line. And hugely more expensive meaning the contractors etc are all sucking up billions

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. you can thank car culture and the plane industry for our lack of investment in

public transit and railroads.