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nice railroad, could this help some residential growth?

that's not good..........

ummm dead thread, this thing hasent been alive for about a year so no reason to bring it back.

personally i have no opinion on gay marriage, mostly because i can aggre with both sides on diffrent points. But the voters of California for whatever reason voted for Prop 8, and we should respect that decsision by the people of California.

Ok first of all. Im sorry i havent been able to give update latly. Getting a new laptop, and my brother getting back the xbox ( which he always get's angry at, and is very annoying to be around, which the computer is in that room ) Have caused me to just have no time. But dont worry, with christmas break starting, ill try to give you all the most possible so stay tuned.

In recent weeks more and more news on the chance of Highspeed rail in the U.S has happend. High-speed rail backers look to Obama Democrats for next funding wave By Paul Rogers Mercury News The credit markets are collapsing, the stock market has tanked, and government deficits are sky-high. Sounds like a terrible time to try to construct one of the largest public works projects in California history: an 800-mile-long, $45 billion network of bullet trains linking the Bay Area and Los Angeles, right? Wrong, say state planners and backers of the project, still giddy from voter approval last month of Proposition 1A, which provided it a $9.95 billion down payment. The new tone in Washington, D.C., away from Reaganomics and toward a new version of FDR's "New Deal," means there will be billions for public works projects like roads, bridges, airports — and rail, supporters say. "I'm sure there will be federal money," said Mehdi Morshed, executive director of the California High Speed Rail Authority, a state agency planning the system. "When we talk about jump-starting the economy, how are you going to do that without creating jobs?" Morshed and other high-speed rail advocates are looking to three potential funding sources from Washington, D.C. First, President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a massive economic rescue package, perhaps worth $500 billion. The package is expected to be heavy with public works spending. Second, a bill introduced by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., would authorize the sale of $23 billion in tax-exempt bonds to finance high-speed rail projects around the country, with at least $10 billion of that set aside for California and the Northeast. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is a co-sponsor. Finally, on Oct. 15, President Bush signed the Amtrak reauthorization bill. It included $1.5 billion for high-speed rail projects over the next five years in 11 corridors across the United States, including California. "I think high-speed rail now is 'when' not 'if,'"‰" said Carl Guardino, chief executive of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a business organization in San Jose that backed Proposition 1A. A business plan released by the high-speed rail authority last month says that it will cost $33 billion to build the system from San Francisco to Los Angeles, with trains zooming at 220 mph and stations in San Jose, Fresno, Bakersfield and other large cities. In addition to the nearly $10 billion approved by voters on Nov. 4, the plan seeks about $14 billion in federal money, $7 billion in private funding from companies that would operate trains and sell tickets similar to the way commercial airlines run airplanes, and $3 billion from local and regional sources. Morshed said his agency expects to finish engineering and environmental studies by 2012, with the whole L.A.-San Francisco route completed from 2018 to 2020. Another $12 billion will be needed to extend it to San Diego and Sacramento, the business plan says, with completion estimated by 2030. The state's business plan projects 55 million riders a year and a $1.1 billion profit by 2030. That may be overly ambitious. Most other high-speed rail systems in the world require some government operating subsidies, said Dan Sperling, director of the University of California-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. It is not easy to say now whether the 2030 ridership and profit projections are plausible, he added. "It's difficult to design a system and determine its attract iveness," he said, "when the benefits are going to be so far in the future, and with so much uncertainty about where people will be living, how they will be traveling, what fuel prices and global warming policy will be." Critics call the project a boondoggle whose business plan is overstated. "We will pour billions into this and it will not perform as prescribed," said James Moore, a professor and director of the transportation engineering program at the University of Southern California. "The entire plan crumbles at the touch. Ridership estimates, capital cost estimates, construction cost estimates, operating assumptions, the attractiveness for private dollars — every assumption is wildly optimistic." In the Bay Area, the plan calls for running trains at up to 125 mph along the existing CalTrain corridor between San Francisco's Transbay Terminal and San Jose's Diridon Station — a 30-minute ride. Two new tracks would be added alongside the two CalTrain tracks, and stations would be located in Redwood City or Palo Alto and at San Francisco International Airport. CalTrain's planned electrification of its system, due for completion in 2015, might lure federal funding of high-speed rail, supporters say, because the coming improvements — including overhead wires — would benefit both projects. The CalTrain partnership also increases the chances that California's first high-speed rail segment would be San Jose-to-San Francisco. "What a coup for us that would be," said Christine Dunn, a spokeswoman for CalTrain. "It would bring people from all over the world to come and see what it looks like." The n ext High Speed Rail Authority board meeting will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors chambers, 70 W. Hedding St., in San Jose. To read the high-speed rail business plan, go to www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov. quote> and High-Speed Rail Coming Down The Tracks by Adam Doster on November 25, 2008 - 4:26pm The Supertrain could be coming to a station near you. Following the excellent news last month that Congress doubled the amount of federal funding earmarked for Amtrak, Sens. John Kerry and Arlen Specter unveiled another bill last week that would build upon the Amtrak reauthorization and fund high-speed rail lines across the country. Titled the High-Speed Rail for America Act of 2008, the bill would provide money for tax-exempt bonds to finance long-stalled high-speed rail projects. “A first-rate rail system,” Kerry said in a statement, “would protect our environment, save families time and money, reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and help get our economy moving again.” If the bill passes, Illinois riders could benefit handsomely. The legislation sets aside $5.4 billion over a six-year period for rail infrastructure bonds that can be used on 10 rail corridors deemed in need of repair by the Federal Rail Administration. The Midwest represents one such corridor, with Chicago as its hub. Plans to revamp the region’s stretch of rail (dubbed the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative) were drawn up years ago. All that’s needed is the capital, which this bill would help provide. As Ryan Avent writes, the timing of Kerry and Specter’s initiative is especially poignant in light of the Rust Belt’s financial struggles and the auto executives’ impending 500-mile carpool to Washington: High-speed rail could cut travel time between Detroit and Washington from nine hours to three — just a smidge longer than the train ride from Washington to New York, from downtown to downtown. And you’d never have to take your shoes off, unless you wanted to. High-speed rail would also cut a five-hour drive from Detroit to Chicago to just over an hour. Detroit to Cleveland? Just under and hour. Detroit to Pittsburgh? About an hour and a half. High-speed rail would, in other words, turn Rust Belt distances into northeast corridor distances, while also shifting the Rust Belt closer to the northeast corridor. It would increase the return to doing business in every city in the region. It would be the Erie Canal and the original railroads on steroids. quote> So what our your thoughts? and what do you think about this becoming more and more likly? this thread can also be used to post any new news about this.

Intresting, may Flint adopt this power source when time comes? where looking for other power sources away from windmills to help raise propoerty values, since they just realized that some people dont like living belowe a giant windmill

A somewhat big update to this story. http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/high-speed-rail-us-cities-8623.html This is a big step, espically seeing that the goverment for the first time seems intrested in getting this off the ground.

lol i completly aggre with Duke. THough this is just one more kick to the grave i tihnk, and a reason to give us all to buy iphones. Which i plan not too.

hmmm something mabey i suggested

well let's be honest this does give them a chance. espically when people, even from chicago are getting tired of the machine. But good job in keep the thread updated mantic. On the Booby Rush thing...... i dont want to being up anything but isnt it also racist to say something like that? saying the canidate must be black or no go...... isnt that like saying the person must be white?

i already have firefox, and someitmes i do use it time to time, but i just perfer ie.......

Im one of those 60% or more people who use Internet Explorer, who will not change anytime soon most likly. But im glad this was brought and my computer can be a little safer.

That...Looks...Amazing!

Wow Bush can dodge! probably thanks do dick cheney though ever sence the shooting incident But really this solves nothing, so throwing ths shoe was not good. Besides he still our president so i dont like it anyway.

EA and Disney would be like Dick Cheney, and George bush working together.......wait that already happend.

hmm a need for speed with the character from cars as the cars anyone

i dont know which is worse, EA by itself, or disney buying EA

honestly it may be possible, but is it safe, sturdy? could it survive a disaster? what about windstorms?

chicago, since every building fits into it's place. Though in terms oh just aww strucking hongkong. Dubia on the other hand is somewhat bland to me.......

as a greek-american is saddens me to see this, espically is such a historic country. But it's to be expected, espically with the anarchist, which are known for violence anyway. But also the anarchist are using the general dislike of the current goverment, espically with the youths, and over the economy. Honestly these tensions have been building for awhile. Though it seems to be starting to go down now. But yea greece is very tolerant of protest, so again to be expected.

good update, intresting look back intime. Also hmmmm something dealing with Agnous mabey?? also extra post deleted.

ohhh i like where your going with that! but there are others that i think need to be taken out, such as the leader of the state senate leader, or some of the politians around them. But you make the point everyone has been thinking, can this bring down the machine?! i hope so

well to say on that from what i can tell and what the media is saying obama is not connected by person, though lets be honest he is also part of the machine, not like him or ryan or any others though. but still this makes a good base for any claim others might have about him.

ummm i see no diffrence from the last one.....