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Pure Pork or a viable project?

bczoom

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The initiative to build a high-speed train from Las Vegas to Disneyland?

Their "initial" price estimate is in the area of $8,750,000,000 or approx. $35,000,000 per mile.

I didn't catch who they expected to pay for it, but if it's the public, I'll be outraged. If private companies (e.g. Disney and the LV casinos), I don't care as much but I doubt they'll get my patronage as much as they have in the past.
 

mtntopper

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With fuel prices high, they will have to find a way to get the gamblers to Vegas. We will all pay the price in the end as it will end getting government grant money. I would be in favor, if it was able to pay its own way, before and after completion without tax money support.....:yum:
 

Melensdad

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Actually it seems reasonable to me. Anaheim is close to Los Angeles. Although I would think that it would be better to route the train to LA rather than Anaheim. There is a weekly migration to and from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and a high speed rail will certainly service the traffic flow between the two regions, it might also take some load off of the airlines flying into McCarran because that airport is one of the biggest cluster-f***s ever designed.
 

XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq

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Hmmm . . . I see some emminent domain issues. Land seizure to build a private rail for gambling addicts.

I'm with BC. There better be no federal money in this and the government should not flex its muscle to seize private land.

PB
 

beds

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B_Skurka said:
Although I would think that it would be better to route the train to LA rather than Anaheim.
Exactly! I can't imagine driving an hour or two to get on the high speed train. But they are probably targeting the Suburban Orange County white trash.

I did that L.A. to Vegas roadtrip a couple of times. Enjoyable in a kind of hauntingly Hunter S. Thompson kind of way.
 

Dutch-NJ

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bczoom said:
“Pure Pork or a viable project?”
From what I hear, the revised project cost is now closer to $15,000,000,000 and climbing ($56,000,000 per mile).

Thanks to Senator Harry Reid (Democrat), over $100,000,000 has already been spent on “research.”

How many of you taxpayers have ever heard of “Crédit Mobilier”?

This type of project can be both viable and a rip-off.

This project has all the earmarks of yet another scandal. It may be time to fleece the taxpayers once again.


Edit by Bob: Link to Wikepedia article on: Crédit Mobilier.
 
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