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mr_lebowski

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1. 77 BILLION? Are you KIDDING ME? How can 300 miles of railway cost anywhere NEAR

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Feb 20, 2019, 12:55 AM

Feb 2019

$77,000,000,000?!?

How can that even be?!?

And a high speed line that just connects Merced to Bakersfield is freaking USELESS ... you know who travels that route? TRUCKS. And that's mostly it. PEOPLE don't travel from Merced to Bakersfield FFS.

You gotta either the connect the Bay Area proper to the LA valley, or don't even bother. It can start in Tracy or thereabouts, but Merced? C'mon. And it's GOT to get further South than the Grapevine.

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77 BILLION? Are you KIDDING ME? How can 300 miles of railway cost anywhere NEAR mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #1

I purchase freight rail service from all the large US railroads for my company.... TJKay Feb 2019 #2