Funds Pulled for Anaheim-to-Las-Vegas Choo Choo

dont worry about seeing any new projects in ca. calif is going under, the progressives have broke ca. when will you people ever learn, nothing is free, and we redistribute wealth. that is a comunist trait.maybe when they have to fire half of the state gov jobs and close all of the public schools, , and fire all of police and firemen, and 911-swevice. you will learn. i personally want to see ca. fall all the way to the ground. LISTEN-TO ALL GOV PEOPLE IN CA, COMUNISM NEVER WORKS, CA, HAS BEEN COMMIE FOR QUITE AWHILE, AND LOOK WHER WE ARE-FUCKED-BECAUSE OF DIRTY GOV- ILLEGALS, BOGAS WELFARE PROGRAMS. IT DOESNT TAKE A GENOUS TO FIGURE THIS OUT. HOW MANY MORE YEARS OF POVERTY DO YOU WANT.I CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL BROKE AND UNEMPLOYED., I KNOW THATS HARSH, BUT IT TAKES HARSH, FOR YOU PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.

"IT DOESNT TAKE A GENOUS"
Clearly.

I think Vegas needs to fund this.

WILLIEP3;
your post says it all, did you drop out of your catholic school 3rd grade writing class?
or were you a classmate of Sarah Palin?

Communism is DEAD! there are 3 communist nations left, Our great friends China, and Vietnam. China owns our debt, and many of our manufacturing jobs are being sent to Vietnam, Look at the label on all your clothing, see where it was manufactured.

I suggest you get your tiny brain out of your 1950's vintage propaganda,

Look around you:
We were told, "In Russia there are no freedoms, The Government watches everything the people do."
We are on camera at most all times now,
All financial transactions are monitored by the Government. I noticed a sign as I went into a rest room at a theater, "Surveillance Cameras in Use"

Oops My Mistake there are 4 Communist Nations left, China, N. Korea, Cuba and Vietnam.

If this country were really communist, we wouldn't be able to have this discussion.

Quite honestly, these claims that Obama's a communist/socialist are ridiculous.

But on the topic:

It looks quite apparent that the DesertXpress is NOT breaking ground in March, as promised. And even if it connects to the CHSR system in Palmdale (which hasn't been official), a commute from Vegas to Ontario airport and/or Anaheim using the DX would still be WELL over an hour longer than a trip using the Maglev.

And the "maglev isn't compatible with steel-wheel technology" argument is futile, because people from the CHSR system can simply transfer to it. At Ontario, people on the main line (from San Diego to San Francisco) can transfer to the Maglev; OR, people on the Irvine Branch of the CHSR can transfer in Anaheim at the future ARTIC station.

Besides, the only thing supporting this "single seat" ride is the idea of a National HSR system, which simply won't happen, because after a certain distance, the airplane takes over.

REASONS FOR MAGLEV LOSING ITS FUNDING:

$45 million was only going to go to lobbyists, out of town consultants and investment bankers and COULD NOT BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION. Even if it could have been used for construction, which it could not, that would have paid for about one quarter to one half of a mile – based upon maglev cost estimates prepared by three different public agencies in this country

Congress actually shifted those funds to a real project in Las Vegas that will immediately get people to work

The maglev project was only going to extend 40 miles to Primm – it was not going to be environmentally cleared for construction beyond that point even if they had gotten the $45 million

They have no money to build it to Anaheim let alone to Primm

The major reason they did not ever receive the $45 million is that they never came up with the required 20% local matching funds – they tried to convince the Federal Railroad Administration to allow them to use “in-kind services” as the local match, not real private money – which they never committed

They were always many years away from being able to build anything even if they could have come up with the untold billions of dollars needed for it

The DesertXpress project will be able to start this year without any public grants – 200 miles to Victorville and soon thereafter another 50 miles to Palmdale

Just the first phase of DX creates approximately 50,000 years of construction employment, reaching about 20,000 workers at the peak of construction