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> high-speed trains running from Merced to Bakersfield I lived in CA for 15 years. I've been all over it (incl central ca). This would be such a pyrrhic victor

> high-speed trains running from Merced to Bakersfield I lived in CA for 15 years. I've been all over it (incl central ca). This would be such a pyrrhic victory, that I lack words! Who the hell needs to commute enough between those two god-forsaken places to justify the billions spent on this?

jeffbee 3y ago
What's the justification for the far more expensive SR-99 that serves the same route?
- MisterPea 3y ago
  Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99
  - jeffbee 3y ago
    So it's an important commercial route but with no passenger demand? What a geographic oddity! I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find any other examples of that, anywhere.
    - dmitrygr 3y ago
      Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?
      - jeffbee 3y ago
        Wow you got me there. I'm cancelling my Oakland-Shenzen train project right now.