China Builds High-Speed Rail Links; U.S. to 'Invest' in Armed Guards for Schools.

[KingOrfeo]

I'm skeptical of them being profitable if run by the government.

Public utilities and services are not supposed to be profitable. If you're showing a profit, you're doing it wrong.

 

[koalabear]

http://img3.catalog.photos.msn.com/Image.aspx?uuid=bcb8a835-2df0-47c6-9c06-a5bbdbe6e880&w=628&h=498&so=2

 

[thør]

http://www.bombardier.com/files/en/supporting_docs/image_and_media/products/BT-HS_experience_933px.jpg

 

[islandman]

The German high-speed trains are fucking fantastic. It was like being in a Dreamliner on the ground.

 

[islandman]

You really, really need to read this. Also this and this.

What lesson is it that you're trying to teach me?

 

[KingOrfeo]

What lesson is it that you're trying to teach me?

The many downsides to a built environment built around the automobile.

 

[richard_daily]

Good article on the longest high speed rail line yet, built in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/b...igh-speed-rail-line-opens-in-china.html?_r=1&

 

[koalabear]

Utah teachers get free gun training in response to Newtown shooting
Kasey Hansen, a special education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, says she would take a bullet for any of her students, but if faced with a gunman threatening her class, she would rather be able to shoot back.

On Thursday, she was one of 200 Utah teachers who flocked to an indoor sports arena for free instruction in the handling of firearms by gun activists who say armed educators might have a chance of thwarting deadly shooting rampages in their schools.

The event was organized by the Utah Shooting Sports Council in response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., this month that killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...wtown-shooting


Where's the free train?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

One of the arguments against the HSR proposed from Southern California to Las Vegas is that the existing freeway could be doubled in capacity and maintained for ten years or more for the same amount of tax dollars needed to construct the HSR. (not the total cost, just federal matching funds)

That completely ignores the projection that it will take 60-100 years to break even on the HSR link as proposed.

Most of what you're saying is just flat out wrong. You can only double the capacity of the highway between the 2 cities in some places. You'd still have huge bottlenecks in LA & Vegas because you can't expand capacity in the city.

I imagine the casinos would make more money since it would be easier for people to travel and they would arrive sooner & stay a bit longer.

 

[Weird Harold]

Most of what you're saying is just flat out wrong. You can only double the capacity of the highway between the 2 cities in some places. You'd still have huge bottlenecks in LA & Vegas because you can't expand capacity in the city.

I imagine the casinos would make more money since it would be easier for people to travel and they would arrive sooner & stay a bit longer.

I guess all of the traffic cones and road closures this summer while the widen I-15 must have been my imagination.

 

[islandman]

Yeah, that's really what I wanted when I started this thread, a game of one-upmanship called "Who knows the stretch of road between LA and Vegas best? Because he who does cannot be questioned!"

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I guess all of the traffic cones and road closures this summer while the widen I-15 must have been my imagination.

When you read my post, where did I say that no point of I-15 could be widened?

That's discounting the fact that the portions they do widen will make traffic worse.

 

[hogjack]

China rules.
America drools.