Dear Editor,
It is obvious that those who believe the high speed rail would have been excessively expensive are sadly mistaken.
The California high speed rail plan is for first generation trains. Countries with courage are already on the third generation, the Maglev trains that have no wheels but float on opposing magnets. These trains have no wheels and thus, none of the friction and heavy wear that can be expected in high speed trains of the past two generations.
Thus, we could have executed our designs by purchasing the slowest high speed rail left-overs. There was actually an expected Bell-Curve in cost!
The good news part is that we could have done what we have planned very cheaply. We could have built it from more modern countries’ scrap piles. The sad news is that America, which once shot men to the moon, has been reduced to nailing left-overs to the ground, and we can’t even afford to do that.
Oh! And remember the Bell Curve in school? The A’s were on one end, and the F’s on the other.
Our high speed rail plans were F’d from the beginning …
Tony Weiler, Gilroy
