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I don’t think the project was poorly planned at all; it’s a standard Robert Moses-type planning mechanism, and those generally work quite effectively. The plan for the CHSR was really quite logical and sensible given the terrain-based issues they have to overcome. Retroactively withdrawing...

Oh, Steve? I find his videos fascinating but he belongs in a looney bin. Eating 80 year old field rations, it’s amazing he isn’t dead. me, I’d be dead fromthe heartache of spending thousands on such a thing and then destroying it.

I’d like to announce plans to shift California 500 miles west and leave it in the Pacific ocean where it belongs. I think my doing so would have about as much chance of success.

What’s a China virus? I hope it’s one that shatters when it impacts something.

First of all, if I draft you a bill for services, I will make money selling you my labor. Do you really think the car techs at your local dealer makes $90-225 an hour? Because they really don’t. There are a variety of reasons for this, some perfectly legitimate about accounting for variables...

I think your glasses are tinted red.

Having eaten more than a few MREs in my life, I can assure you that the appetizing food tastes bad, and the unappetizing food tastes worse. I think it is abhorrent the food we feed our deployed troops, especially compared to what other nations offer- even Russian rations are considerably more...

While Tesla has made SOME progress, the Knight Industries Two Thousand remains the province of a campy 1980s television show with excessively hammy acting (even for the 80s). As such part of the price of driving to work in Manhattan as a resident costs the price of the car, the ludicrous...

Your presumption is largely in error according to the OIG.

The Viaggio car shells are made in lounge, dining, and sleeper configurations. The Viewliners were a massive mistake. CAF should take their tail, shove it fully up their tuchus, and beat it back to whatever country they come from that tolerates ID-10T errors throughout their business model.

I try to avoid putting a political bent on things that don’t need to be politicized. People who are objecting to the the concept that their freedom can be impinged upon in the name of other people’s freedom to not live in fear of catching this disease are, non-partisanly, selfish boogermonkeys...

I dunno, but most mortals can’t afford to traverse manhattan in a private automobile of any brand.

You apparently didn’t follow. I drove it for six months only because somebody drove into the passengers side of it at about forty miles per hour; the impact was so hard the wheels were all ripped off their mountings; if I had a passenger in the car they would have very likely died. If your Honda...

Providing food service, especially with union employees, is actually very expensive. I don’t know where people get the idea that the costs are... Apocryphal.

There are some, as my governor so childishly labels them, knuckleheads who aren’t obeying social distancing in hard hit areas, they are truly the minority. If you think that Amtrak is going to crack 20 million riders again this decade, I think you have a great deal of wishful thinking.

Well, I see your point. However, I think it is important that you personally locate and propose to both us and the US Congress where the funding for this tunnel project will come from. I am going To guess that by the time all is said and done, and all the graft paid, about $20 billion will be...

My I suggest you look into a concept called the sunk-cost fallacy, and consider it carefully. EMUs are exactly what the corridor needs, and buying ones that are capable of being effectively put in neutral and being locomotive hauled by a diesel when needed has a lot of sense to it. There is...

There’s a term for thinking that. It’s called unreasonable optimism. Or perhaps irrational exuberance. Forget dining. You’re going to be lucky to have a train two years from now.

Fully agree with me? Good god, don't do that. They'll come after you with a net.

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