Dennis Kucinich reminds us It's All About the Infrastructure, damn it!!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I mean, talk about a job maker....

Not just the trains themselves, but retrofitting the tracks as well....

[chefcraig]

I mean, talk about a job maker....

Not just the trains themselves, but retrofitting the tracks as well....

It all would depend on who wins the bid for the contract. The U.S. could have a streamlined, efficient money making enterprise or the whole thing could end up looking like certain memorable episode of The Simpsons.

[Seshmeister]

Yeah, but think about bureaucracy in the U.S. For one reason or another, some senator would demand that the public has access to the brakes via cord running the length of the train. So that means you and your family get to leave the tracks at 200 M.P.H. because some nitwit with a baseball hat on backwards thought he spied a woodchuck.

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This is the new idea they may be going for. The train never stops which saves a lot of energy and time.

In the words of Kent Brockman, I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords...

[GAR]

I wouldn't mind at all to take a bullet train to Florida, or hell, to the West Coast....

If we had a coast-to-coast highspeed rail I suspect it would become dominated in short order by one of the big shippers like FEDEX or DHL as freight cars would be given preferential track allotment over time to the point where individual bulletrain travel cost would become astronomical.

I don't see that ever happening. Compared to Europe, the US transcontinent is vast, vast vast. I don't even think it would be possible in 100 years or more when all the freeways are falling apart here in California.

Anotehr thing I don't understand is why are the roads so shitty in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago with a taxable support base - but when you get out into the sticks the fucking roads are near perfect? Cuz the NHTSA won't come round to pave once they're done for another 25 years, but here in Los Angeles for example you can't go out late at night to party without the freeway fags shutting everything down past 11pm!

You got all these cone-dropping morons out there starting at the stroke of 8pm, squeezing 3 lanes into one, and three hours later they are out squirting epoxy in all the cracks and setting fast-cure block repairs whcih they can never seem to get level with the rest of the freeway and thus eventually becomes subjectivly cratered from additional, unnecessary impacts.

NOW it's the holidays: try going into Hollywood to see a band or a show and getting back anytime soon.. get there at 8, eat and leave by 9:15, leave the club or theater by 12:00 and its like a fucked-up battlezone with all the cones all over the place, electronic signboards.. this is shovel-ready projects?

It is taking 6 years now to add 3 miles of extra lane widening both sides of the 405fwy n and s of the 10fwy.. and they still ain't done.

[BigBadBrian]

As C.J. Cregg said, infrastructure isn't sexy....

But Kucinich is right, plenty of things in our infrastructure that are just waiting to be done....

Yeah, like the worthless expansion of Kempsville Rd at the intersection of Princess Anne. What a waste of money. Hell, the signs advertising the fact it was the Reinvestment and Recovery Act probably cost several thousand.

Anyway people, this was a project originally to be paid entirely by the taxpayers of Virginia Beach but the city managed to shove it off on to the Stimulus. Now you all get to pay for our local traffic intersection upgrade as well.

[FORD]

They should have made Pat Robertson pay for it. Didn't you say you lived right down the road from CBN?

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Yeah, like the worthless expansion of Kempsville Rd at the intersection of Princess Anne. What a waste of money. Hell, the signs advertising the fact it was the Reinvestment and Recovery Act probably cost several thousand.

Anyway people, this was a project originally to be paid entirely by the taxpayers of Virginia Beach but the city managed to shove it off on to the Stimulus. Now you all get to pay for our local traffic intersection upgrade as well.

They've been talking about doing it for like 10 years, nice to see it's finally in motion...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

They should have made Pat Robertson pay for it. Didn't you say you lived right down the road from CBN?

A few miles away...

No, that fucker wanted VDOT to build another exit off of I-64 that would exit right next to his compound....