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What is the cost of Arnolds' choo-choo train?
"Let's suppose that the Obama administration gets its wish to build high-speed rail systems in 13 urban corridors.
* The administration has already committed $10.5 billion, and that's just a token down payment.
* California wants about $19 billion for an 800-mile track from Anaheim to San Francisco.
* Constructing all 13 corridors could easily approach $200 billion.
* Most (or all) of that would have to come from government at some level."
Few will ride it. It will be owned and controlled by unions. We have no money to operate it.
This is a massive corrupt project transfering tax dollars to unions and big corporation special interests.
Here is the waste: "* Los Angeles to San Francisco led the list with 13,838 passengers; altogether, daily air passengers in these 12 corridors totaled 52,934.
* If all of them switched to trains, the total number of daily airline passengers (about 2 million) would drop only 2.5 percent, and any fuel savings would be less than that."
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"Let's suppose that the Obama administration gets its wish to build high-speed rail systems in 13 urban corridors.
* The administration has already committed $10.5 billion, and that's just a token down payment.
* California wants about $19 billion for an 800-mile track from Anaheim to San Francisco.
* Constructing all 13 corridors could easily approach $200 billion.
* Most (or all) of that would have to come from government at some level."
Few will ride it. It will be owned and controlled by unions. We have no money to operate it.
This is a massive corrupt project transfering tax dollars to unions and big corporation special interests.
Here is the waste: "* Los Angeles to San Francisco led the list with 13,838 passengers; altogether, daily air passengers in these 12 corridors totaled 52,934.
* If all of them switched to trains, the total number of daily airline passengers (about 2 million) would drop only 2.5 percent, and any fuel savings would be less than that."
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