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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:19 pm 
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A feat of engineering that conveys people from Fresno to Bakersfield?


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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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A feat of engineering that conveys people from Fresno to Bakersfield?
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A feat of engineering that conveys people from Fresno to Bakersfield?


This is the part I don't understand the most. Completely fucking useless.

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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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It's going to be most unfortunate when the trains are running at 20% capacity and passengers are charged $400 for a ticket.


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Public transportation doesn't need to justify itself on a cost basis because... well apparently it just doesn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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how long until riding this train makes you as high as traveling on the BART?

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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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I used to ride BART fairly regularly as a youth, and never experienced a hot boxed bart car, I'm afraid. Did have my wallet stolen once, and was exposed to who knows how many vectors and the stench of urine-soaked chair cushions. Ahhh, public transportation.


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I used to ride BART fairly regularly as a youth, and never experienced a hot boxed bart car, I'm afraid. Did have my wallet stolen once, and was exposed to who knows how many vectors and the stench of urine-soaked chair cushions. Ahhh, public transportation.
i rode it once. to get from SF airport to OAK airport, and there were clouds billowing out at each stop.

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Did your experience occur before or after the Oscar Grant incident?


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Did your experience occur before or after the Oscar Grant incident?
it was two years ago when i was "homeless"

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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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So... they passed high speed rail. Some polls suggest that a majority of voters are against it (primarily due to budgetary concerns, it never having any chance of paying back the investment, etc. etc.) Whats disconcerting to me is that any more than a tiny majority thought this was a good idea. I guess you can get anyhing pushed through if you just appeal to 'progress' or 'greatness', and hearken back to glory days that probably never existed.

It'll be fun to see more moderate democrats fight environmentalists for every mile of track.
years from now mexicans will take pride in saying their people built this amazing accomplishment of modern engineering, just like the irish & chinese do when discussing the transcontinental.



Californians were embarrassed Europeans have something they don't. And the last thing a lib wants is to be looked down on by Europeans.

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simple schoolboy wrote:
A feat of engineering that conveys people from Fresno to Bakersfield?



Moving Endo expensively from one valley to the next?

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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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the first page of this thread is hilarious

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the first page of this thread is hilarious



I totally forgot about the dime/bart thing


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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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Skitch Patterson wrote:
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the first page of this thread is hilarious



I totally forgot about the dime/bart thing

it is as weirdly catty and frivolous as the g2t/orpheus thing but certainly a lot funnier

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 Post subject: Re: Will California become America's first failed state?
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It is interesting that Cali will fund this rail project but it's largest community college system is about to go bankrupt. What's the term for this... "cargo cult"?

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