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    Chinese company to help build express train from southern California to Vegas

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...917-story.html

    It would complete the 185-mile route in 80 minutes.

    Unfortunately, this train would still require people to drive from LA to Victorville, where the bulk of heavy southern California traffic exists.

    Victorville is about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

    Construction will reportedly begin in 1-2 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...917-story.html

    It would complete the 185-mile route in 80 minutes.

    Unfortunately, this train would still require people to drive from LA to Victorville, where the bulk of heavy southern California traffic exists.

    Victorville is about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

    Construction will reportedly begin in 1-2 years.

    less than an hour and a half Victorville to Vegas...nice, but when we get there we'll still have to wait in the hotel lobby until 4 pm for the room to be ready
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    Why can't they build a hypertube from LA area to Vegas? Come on, Sheldon! Open the mega-mogul wallet and do something good with all that cash you have instead of wasting it on politics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord of the Fraud View Post
    From the $17 Trillion of America's debt (lol), $1.3 Trillion of that is owed to the yellows.


    So each time you bink or cash in a tourny druff, some of your tax dollars will be going towards the propping up of a communist government.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GrenadaRoger View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord of the Fraud View Post
    From the $17 Trillion of America's debt (lol), $1.3 Trillion of that is owed to the yellows.


    So each time you bink or cash in a tourny druff, some of your tax dollars will be going towards the propping up of a communist government.


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    Lord, you really deserve a "shut up Garrett" now, but i can't do it because i feel sorry for you

    if the British National Health provides therapy for self loathing, make an appointment and get some help--like Tyde, your relentless bashing is a cover up for severe therapy feelings (the only difference between you and him is the target: him PFAer's; you America)

    and I am going to help you as well! the next time the Jehovah Witness comes to my door, I am going to give them $5 and ask for the to pray for you---so feel better, help is on the way from the land you envy



    Haha oh fuck, is that you Gordo?

    therapy--relentless--Jehovah Witness--envy--self loathing--America--$5--help


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    So the construction will begin just when they start a new expansion of Cajon Pass and shut down many lanes at various times during the day.....Brilliant planning.

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    If they really want to help people's commutes between LA and Vegas, they will find a way to fix the horrendous traffic jam which occurs at Primm (40 miles south of Vegas, at the CA border) every Sunday.

    If you look on your traffic map every Sunday, starting from about 11am, you will see something like a 10-15 mile bumper-to-bumper jam which causes delays of up to 2 hours.



    Not a fun way to return from Vegas, especially if you lost money (and let's face it -- you probably did!)

    This same thing used to happen where the 40 and 15 met in Barstow, but they fixed it.

    Now it's at Primm, and it seems like nobody gives a shit, and we're just supposed to accept that's how it's going to be from now on.

    I believe it's because a lane temporarily gets lost before it goes back to 3 lanes when you reach the hill.

    So why can't they just make it 3 lanes between the state line and the hill? I think that would probably fix it. There is plenty of room to do so.

    Maybe it's intentionally being left this way so everyone supports a rail project.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    If they really want to help people's commutes between LA and Vegas, they will find a way to fix the horrendous traffic jam which occurs at Primm (40 miles south of Vegas, at the CA border) every Sunday.

    If you look on your traffic map every Sunday, starting from about 11am, you will see something like a 10-15 mile bumper-to-bumper jam which causes delays of up to 2 hours.



    Not a fun way to return from Vegas, especially if you lost money (and let's face it -- you probably did!)

    This same thing used to happen where the 40 and 15 met in Barstow, but they fixed it.

    Now it's at Primm, and it seems like nobody gives a shit, and we're just supposed to accept that's how it's going to be from now on.

    I believe it's because a lane temporarily gets lost before it goes back to 3 lanes when you reach the hill.

    So why can't they just make it 3 lanes between the state line and the hill? I think that would probably fix it. There is plenty of room to do so.

    Maybe it's intentionally being left this way so everyone supports a rail project.
    Most likely just dumb planning. SB loses a lane at the exit at Primm, then the vehicles leaving the casinos and heading to Cali also has to merge into the SB traffic. So it's almost like 4 lanes into 2. This sat pic isn't even taken late in the day, the traffic is sort of heavy anyway.
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    just a few more billion in giveaways. he sure loves amtrack. i think he said he was a conductor one day, lol.

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    A bunch of bad luck gamblers on a high speed train. What could go wrong? No thank you.

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    Ceremonial ground-breaking for Vegas-LA bullet train!


    https://apnews.com/article/high-spee...b89bfab4e6c4d2

    Current projected completion date: July 14, 2028, the date of the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics.

    Projected cost: $12bn

    A couple of props:*

    Actual opening date:

    On or before July 14, 2028: +2000
    July 15, 2028-January 1, 2031: +675
    January 2, 2031-January 1, 2034: +180
    On or after January 2, 2034: -450
    Abandoned /scrapped at any point: +300

    (The United States no longer existing at that point would likely factor heavily into an abandonment.)

    Actual cost:

    <$12bn: +5000
    $12bn-$20bn: +475
    $21bn-$30bn: +200
    >$30bn: -1800

    *I'm a horrible oddsmaker and these don't actually exist, nor am I booking them. You get the point I'm trying to make though.

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    Such a horrible idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by desertrunner View Post
    Such a horrible idea.
    Gotta wonder what Druff and his mother think about this nonsense..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by desertrunner View Post
    Such a horrible idea.
    Gotta wonder what Druff and his mother think about this nonsense..
    We think desertrunner is right.

    This has fail written all over it.

    If you knew LA geography, you'd know why.

    Nobody is taking commuter trains over to Rancho Cucamonga just to get on another train to Vegas, lugging their stuff the whole way. Oh, and the commuter train to Rancho Cucamonga only leaves from two places -- downtown LA and Victorville (which is closer to Vegas than Rancho Cucamonga, requiring backtracking!)

    Fail!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by desertrunner View Post
    Such a horrible idea.
    Gotta wonder what Druff and his mother think about this nonsense..
    I will ask Mother Druff soon about it. We try to talk when her son goes out for the night.

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