* I’ve always puzzled over the Cult’s fascination with the choo-choo. For as long as I’ve been alive it has been the dream of progressives everywhere in America to cover the nation is train lines. It’s a bizarre obsession, given the physical limits of the technology. Building two small airports with hourly shuttle service between SF and LA would be cheaper and vastly better.
I think the clue is their new obsession with the driverless car. It’s not just an improved cruise control system to avoid collisions. No, they imagine a world where driving your own car is forbidden. Freedom of mobility violates their image of the ideal world. Or, maybe they just hate people. People like driving so Progressives hate cars.
* My understanding was one of the fears was rapid transit would make it easy for ‘diversity’ to burglarize their neighborhoods.
I’ve lived in suburb after suburb where someone told me the architectural features were meant to slow down people coming out of the inner city. Twisty roads and that sort of thing.
* People outside of the city cores are figuring that out. That is why they start killing any sort of mass transit to their neighborhood. It’s the same reason that school choice gets only lukewarm support on the Republican side. From personal experience I can tell you that once the low-income families, with little or no skin in the game, get into private schools on vouchers, they bring a lot of the same issues from the schools they were in.
* That seems to be the general view of a lot regular folks outside of Los Angeles and most of them also hate the idea and will fight it tooth and nail – the folks in Acton are livid over it, same with those in the farming areas North of Bakersfield.
If they run it parallel to the current Metro-link/UP freight line that parallels the 14, it means a massive amount of construction, wiping out homes all over Acton, Palmdale, Lancaster. Oh then there’s the Tehachapi tunnels that would have to expanded for $$$$ or failing that replacing all the traditional rail line with dual use stuff – but I don’t know if it’s possible. Even if it is, that area is one giant speed bump for a high speed train.
About the only supporters of it I can find are local politicians looking for payolla and sleazy construction contractors that suckle off the state teat.
And it’s not NIMBYISM to oppose it either – who wants their neighborhood ruined to please a bunch of fat cat whites who have engorged themselves like bloated ticks off the taxpayer dime for decades.
