California bullet train up in smoke
I was psyched that fast trains were coming to California. The ability to ride trains instead of planes, to free up airliners from one- to three-hour trips so they can accomodate longer distance air travel is exciting. Of course, riding trains is exciting in and of itself.
But leave it to politics to screw up anything that seems to good to be true.
Sure, it’ll happen some day. But this development sets that day back further, sadly.
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January 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Sucky. If it makes you feel any better, we get trains, but they’re so disappointingly expensive, I’ve yet to take one.
I had visions of blazing down to New York on a whim by just hopping on a commuter train. But it’s like … $80 or something (each way!). Yeah right!