Senate Majority Lardasser Harry Reid finally got something approved - a $45 million train to nowhere.
Actually "nowhere" isn't exactly correct. It's supposed to connect Las Vegas with Disneyland perhaps combining the best of adult and non-adult fantasylands.
Say....that might not be a bad name for this choo-choo: Reid's Fantasy Train.
It would seem that in these days of runaway fuel prices, Boss Reid might be concerned with improving inner-city and school mass transportation with clean energy buses etc. But Reid hatched this scheme back in 2005 where it has been flying under the radar ever since. Incidentally, Reid fails to explain in this article just how the mag-lev will alleviate Vegas traffic. And it should also be pointed out that Las Vegas already has an extant abject failure in mass transportation.
I did a little math on the project comparing it to Japan's Linimo. Using this cost/benefit example, our $45 million would buy us exactly 0.65 miles of 300 mph mag-lev train creating the greatest g-force thrill ride on the planet. China's Shanghai Maglev Train, finished in 2004 in a country where labor's cheap and private land ownership is a pretty new concept, cost $1.3 billion for 19 miles of track—roughly $68.4 million per mile.
I'm hoping when the ride is opened Boss Reid will have a front row seat as it snaps his empty, totally useless cranium from his non-existent spine