re: #68 avanti

Here’s California’s pitch:

“Secondly, Anaheim, Las Vegas and everything between on the proposed train route is not some playground for the SoCal and Sin City heathens—these are working cities with real people who need jobs and transit options. Speaking from a regional commuter train perspective, a trip from Anaheim or Palmdale to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles would be minutes compared to the hours it currently takes on the freeways today.”

My Mustang will top 150 mph, but not if I have to stop at every red light along the way.

And I’m going to have to reserve just a bit of skepticism for any claim coming from a state that just noticed it had a $42 billion budget deficit.