General Music Chat

Dog

Please refrain from commenting on my intellect or lack of same. Smoking wacky tobaccy has in no way caused any depletion in my ability to talk sh*t!

I just have trouble remembering little things, like where I live.

But so did Charles Babbage who invented the first computer - a mechanical jobby that is now actually been duplicated in miniature.
Not sure if he smoked weed but he was pretty wacky.

Talbot

Mike,

I said "A lot Of People" Not 'all People'... Actually I meant only one or two people, but my perspective is subject to tracers..haha!

Nooo...high speed trains are not a good thing for the times we are in financially. I'm right here in Nor. Cal and ever city is broke...literally. I'm surprised we still have grocery stores. They layed off tons of people from Safeway(the expensive grocer) and now the cashier at Luckys just informed me that they're laying off about half of the employees there. Any more money spent in CA is gonna kill us.

It's funnt to hear some people over here complain, and then camp out and wait to get the newest iPhone.

All that aside. Even good ideas aren't affordable over here anymore. People are broke, and prices keep going up.

with a high population density where the train will run would make sense but that's the problem here... this would be more profitable say between Boston and Baltimore and hitting all the stops in between..

If it's is hitting all the stops in between, just how high speed could it possible be in the end?

with a high population density where the train will run would make sense but that's the problem here... this would be more profitable say between Boston and Baltimore and hitting all the stops in between..

You been sitting down with your good buddy and splitting a gallon of Jim Beam. You and Lynard really have to settle your differences.

We already have that, It is the biggest taxpayer, money spending, losing project that has been going on for 40 years.

Dane it is just a good thing you have some angels following you around.

I couldn't even begin to think,,, what you are thinking.

Hmmmm, mixed feelings on this Bob.

I spent some time in Europe and grew to really appreciate a convenient rail service there but not at ANY price. For $69 Billion we probably could have built the Starship Enterprise and scheduled regular flights to the Andromeda galaxy. The Calif high speed rail is about 10X the cost of similar trains in Europe. This is estimated to cost every CA taxpayer about $4000 on average just to get it built. Because I am in a higher income group it will probably be $20K out of pocket for me. I could buy a nice used Porsche for that $$ and go anywhere I choose.

High speed rail at competitive world prices that is self supporting... I'm totally on board but at $69 Billion, If it looks like pork and smells like pork... it's a baconfest!

The high price is due to all that GOVERNMENT regulation! Thats why we don't make anything here! We are a nation of consumers! Houston is currently expanding the light rail here (absolutley USELESS) The people of Houston DO NOT WANT RAIL and it was crammed down our throats. They are spending a FOTUNE building it and NO ONE RIDES AS IT IS!

In theory rail is a good thing (light rail). However it is not great for every city. IMO it needs to be put in place and grow WITH the city as New York subway has. Houston is so spread out and such a large city it is just not practical here. Houston is not unlike any sprawling city except for the FACT that Texas is so big and has so much space to grow into. We have had rail for about 15 years and almost no one rides it. Cars are ALWAYS colliding with it on Main Street it is a daily occurence. The electricity it takes to run the damn thing is destroying and eroding the citys infrastructure. Yet they are expanding it. That is IMO the problem with government. They just through a bazillion dollars at it and if it doesn't work they steal more from the 49% of taxpaying citizens and continue to throw MORE money at it.

Thats the problem with liberals. In theory government is the answer. Well its not! Smaller unintrusive government is the answer. If we could let what made this country what it is unleashed we would continue to HELP ourselves and the rest of the world. As we always have. Mistakes HELL yes this great nation has made them. At the same time we have done WAY MORE GOOD than we have mistakes until recently. Now we have this OVERREACHING Government telling legitimate business how to run itself when the gov. can't do it! It seems like the only thing we can do is beat stupidity with BIGGER AND BETTER STUPIDITY!

Hmmmm, mixed feelings on this Bob.

I spent some time in Europe and grew to really appreciate a convenient rail service there but not at ANY price. For $69 Billion we probably could have built the Starship Enterprise and scheduled regular flights to the Andromeda galaxy. The Calif high speed rail is about 10X the cost of similar trains in Europe. This is estimated to cost every CA taxpayer about $4000 on average just to get it built. Because I am in a higher income group it will probably be $20K out of pocket for me. I could buy a nice used Porsche for that $$ and go anywhere I choose.

High speed rail at competitive world prices that is self supporting... I'm totally on board but at $69 Billion, If it looks like pork and smells like pork... it's a baconfest!

The high price is due to all that GOVERNMENT regulation! Thats why we don't make anything here! We are a nation of consumers! Houston is currently expanding the light rail here (absolutley USELESS) The people of Houston DO NOT WANT RAIL and it was crammed down our throats. They are spending a FOTUNE building it and NO ONE RIDES AS IT IS!

In theory rail is a good thing (light rail). However it is not great for every city. IMO it needs to be put in place and grow WITH the city as New York subway has. Houston is so spread out and such a large city it is just not practical here. Houston is not unlike any sprawling city except for the FACT that Texas is so big and has so much space to grow into. We have had rail for about 15 years and almost no one rides it. Cars are ALWAYS colliding with it on Main Street it is a daily occurence. The electricity it takes to run the damn thing is destroying and eroding the citys infrastructure. Yet they are expanding it. That is IMO the problem with government. They just through a bazillion dollars at it and if it doesn't work they steal more from the 49% of taxpaying citizens and continue to throw MORE money at it.

Interesting. When I lived there (Houston) in the 80's, seems the buzz was the opposite of what it is now.

I remember those horrific Grumman buses, which I had to take everyday (From Fountainview Drive, into down town) The commuters who rode in with me all felt a rail was the answer. But in hindsight, (and as you know) the Zoning laws in Houston-proper were insane. So it made the notion of a rail seem like the crazy add-on "transit of chaos" ...

That is prolly one reason, why today, nobody in Houston wants the rail...I'm just guessing though...