top | item 11128382 California bullet train headed first to San Jose – a big Bay Area win 5 points| superfx | 10 years ago |mercurynews.com 4 comments order hn newest [+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply As a primer, I highly recommend The Atlantic journalist James Fallows' deep dive, on California HSR:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-cali...Note: this article contains links to the subsequent articles, which, as of this writing, number 14. [+] [-] dmishe|10 years ago|reply So... what do you do when you arrive in Bakersfield, take a car to LA? [+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply Given current Bay Area rental rates...maybe go home (?)From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madera,+CA/Note: obviously, so much unknown, impossible to say whether 40 minutes represents reality, at this point. load replies (1)
[+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply As a primer, I highly recommend The Atlantic journalist James Fallows' deep dive, on California HSR:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-cali...Note: this article contains links to the subsequent articles, which, as of this writing, number 14.
[+] [-] dmishe|10 years ago|reply So... what do you do when you arrive in Bakersfield, take a car to LA? [+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply Given current Bay Area rental rates...maybe go home (?)From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madera,+CA/Note: obviously, so much unknown, impossible to say whether 40 minutes represents reality, at this point. load replies (1)
[+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply Given current Bay Area rental rates...maybe go home (?)From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madera,+CA/Note: obviously, so much unknown, impossible to say whether 40 minutes represents reality, at this point. load replies (1)
[+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-cali...
Note: this article contains links to the subsequent articles, which, as of this writing, number 14.
[+] [-] dmishe|10 years ago|reply
[+] [-] iokevins|10 years ago|reply
From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madera,+CA/
Note: obviously, so much unknown, impossible to say whether 40 minutes represents reality, at this point.