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In reply to the discussion: Now Obama Wants To Build A $5 Billion Bullet Train From Las Vegas To Nowhere [View all]lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)8. We need high speed rail...
..except the oil companies and politicians control the dialog.
Romney said his first order of business will be to kill AMTRAK....
When that happens.. the USA will be the only industrialized country in the WORLD without a passenger rail service.
USA.....USA...... we're Number 3.. we're number 3.... we're number 3...
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Now Obama Wants To Build A $5 Billion Bullet Train From Las Vegas To Nowhere [View all]
FarCenter
Mar 2012
OP
150 mph trains require special railways and complete grade separation from streets and highways
FarCenter
Mar 2012
#6
"Planning" high speed rail on behalf of governments is quite the cottage industry
OmahaBlueDog
Mar 2012
#3
let Las Vegas pay for it all out of its obscene profits from "not rigged" gambling nt
msongs
Mar 2012
#9
Not only that. I heard that some mobster is building a casino in the middle of the desert!
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#12
We don't need a train to Las Vegas. We need a train from LA to San Francisco, one
JDPriestly
Mar 2012
#14
I live in LA and I'll most likely never hear the end of thr '"Disneyland - Vegas train" jokes.
Initech
Mar 2012
#16