Reply #34

In the discussion thread: Now Obama Wants To Build A $5 Billion Bullet Train From Las Vegas To Nowhere [View all]

Response to FarCenter (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 11:28 AM

LadyHawkAZ (4,098 posts)

34. They've been blathering on about this for 20 years

Never gonna happen.

It's not unique to Obama though. It's been the big coming attraction since at least Clinton.

Reply to this post

Back to OP Alert abuse Link to post in-thread

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum

Replies to this discussion thread

36 replies	Author	Time	Post
Now Obama Wants To Build A $5 Billion Bullet Train From Las Vegas To Nowhere [View all]	FarCenter	Mar 2012	OP
Why wouldn't they just make the train go all the way to LA? /nt	Drale	Mar 2012	#1
My guess is because of the Cajon Pass.	cherokeeprogressive	Mar 2012	#5
150 mph trains require special railways and complete grade separation from streets and highways	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#6
A mountain range. nt	Codeine	Mar 2012	#29
I doubt this will fly..........	TheCowsCameHome	Mar 2012	#2
I hope not!	izquierdista	Mar 2012	#4
Nice!	Codeine	Mar 2012	#30
"Planning" high speed rail on behalf of governments is quite the cottage industry	OmahaBlueDog	Mar 2012	#3
150MPH?	anti-alec	Mar 2012	#7
We need high speed rail...	lib2DaBone	Mar 2012	#8
High speed rail is roughly as energy efficient as airplanes	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#11
High-speed rail will make the switch to fuel other than oil more	JDPriestly	Mar 2012	#15
I don't know where you got your information from, but	Art_from_Ark	Mar 2012	#22
Life-cycle assessment of high-speed rail: the case of California	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#28
Your assessment may be true for a desert bullet train	Art_from_Ark	Mar 2012	#36
let Las Vegas pay for it all out of its obscene profits from "not rigged" gambling nt	msongs	Mar 2012	#9
"Planners imagine"	obey	Mar 2012	#10
Not only that. I heard that some mobster is building a casino in the middle of the desert!	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#12
LOL!	Politicalboi	Mar 2012	#17
Not gonna happen.	Ikonoklast	Mar 2012	#13
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
Yeah I thought that too	Politicalboi	Mar 2012	#19
Highway 15 from Victorville to Vegas can be a 150+ mile long traffic jam.	denbot	Mar 2012	#26
There were two plans for high-speed rail...	ljm2002	Mar 2012	#18
If I've driven 100 miles from Santa Monica to Victorville...	KeepItReal	Mar 2012	#20
As a Californian, no mag lev, NO DEAL!	Firebrand Gary	Mar 2012	#21
That is one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard.	Nye Bevan	Mar 2012	#23
I dunno, works elsewhere including CT and NYC.	Chan790	Mar 2012	#24
Commuter rail into NYC is not really comparable to this proposal.	Nye Bevan	Mar 2012	#25
People who live in San Bernadino might use it, there are people that live there too.	Raine	Mar 2012	#27
we have a lot of people who come from california to las vegas	newspeak	Mar 2012	#31
Republicans for Reid helped Reid win the election in 2010???!!!	dixiegrrrrl	Mar 2012	#32
Wow, you managed to bash Obama, Reid, and mass transit in one post while	FSogol	Mar 2012	#33
They've been blathering on about this for 20 years	LadyHawkAZ	Mar 2012	#34
This is nothing new...	Javaman	Mar 2012	#35

Edit History

Please login to view edit histories.