Listen up Rush, Fox News, Govenor Jindall (who is quite charming, Happy Mardi Gras to you, and laissez les bons temps rouler!) and my own dad.
The train. From Disney Land to Vegas-- full stop. Tone of paternalizing dismay. Sounds very much like a silly toy, a wasted gift, an extra attraction for tourists doubling their vacation.
Can you feel the whip of rotation? Can you feel both reason and planet shudder?
The Train is an experiment in high speed rail service for short distance runs. LA to Vegas. Dallas to Austin to Houston. St. Louis to KC or Chicago. The entire Eastern Seaboard. Orlando to Tampa. Name your short hop on a plane.
It is an experiment in taking short hop and Highly Polluting flights out of the skies. It is an experiment in decent and humane service (if we follow the European model). It is an experiment in the modernization of our passenger transport infrastructure.
Oh, no! NOOOOOOOO! Terrible. Symbol of Dem habit of throwing money around like Mardi Gras beads.
Get a real objection. Start singing about some serious new ideas.
On such a train, one sits in a comfortable seat, might eat a decent meal, watch the countryside roll by. One does not fear car wreck by drunk or by tractor trailer or plummeting from the sky.
Given the security delays at airports, on most of these short hops, the train will get us there with greater haste.
A gazillion people run that highway from LA to Vegas every day, every weekend, in cars that don't run on sunshine. Some are tourist, many are locals. It's a good location for the experiment.
Stop making it sound like an expensive toy. It's completely disingenuous and short sighted and anti-livable-planet and transparently stupid to do so.
Stop it.
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really trilloins of dollars in debt to the Japanese and chinese and we want another train system that has been out dated for years by the way. come on feed the freaking hungery
What's legal age in Vegas?
You have a point, there, Anonymous. You do. It remains a source of astonishment that our recovery is focused on the middle class as if the poor do not and never have existed. In fact, you're doubly right: the poor won't be able to afford these trains for a long time to come.
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