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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]Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)19. Yeah I thought that too
Maybe they should have commuter trains out of LA/Riverside and Palmdale to Victorville.
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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