Heart-ache: Locals not thrilled with start of $68 billion California high-speed rail construction « Hot Air

Heart-ache: Locals not thrilled with start of $68 billion California high-speed rail construction « Hot Air: "The correct comparison would be to other mass-transport systems, and the fact is that the route already has service — through the airlines.  At least a half-dozen airlines fly that route each day, with multiple departures and arrivals through multiple airports throughout both endpoint metropolises.  The costs of those flights cost less than the full projected cost of a round-trip ticket on the 160-minute train ride, and gets there in less than half the time.  There is almost literally no need for this boondoggle except to aggrandize the politicians wasting taxpayer money by laying track adjacent to and across the West’s largest earthquake fault."

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