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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MightyAlweg: [QB] Regardless of whether it's a five hour trip with only two well timed cross-platform transfers, or a seven hour trip with three ill timed cross-station transfers, it's still nothing like what we voted for back in '08. This is not just a political bait and switch, this is bait and switch and swindle and steal. The OC Register has some interesting details this weekend, after their staff dug through the 230 page analysis the HSR Commission coughed out earlier this week. Using the HSR Commission's own ridership stats they have used to get to the new $98 Billion price tag with lowered ridership estimates and higher ticket costs for a system that won't be done until 2030 or later, comes these amazing concepts; Under the new analysis, which assumes gasoline and air travel costs will rise modestly above inflation, Merced will have 14,400 southbound passenger boardings per day in 2030. The sleepy, economically troubled town of Merced with 80,000 residents will suddenly have more daily train boardings per day than Penn Station in New York City does. Cause, you know, one fifth of the people in Merced really need to get to Fresno very fast every day, and they don't want to be burdened by their own car once they do arrive in Fresno. And it's this type of math and ridership estimates that they've based the latest cost estimates on. It not only doesn't inspire confidence in the Commission's math, it now forces me to question just what kind of lunatics are running this bullet train show up in Sacramento. The Register's interesting article on this is here... http://www.ocregister.com/news/billion-325463-authority-rail.html I want my vote back, please. I say we take the Feds 3 Billion and invest it in track improvements and new rolling stock for the Surfliners and San Joaquins, and just don't look back. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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