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Letters: The real truth about the bullet train and its cost isn't being reported
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By The Community

The real truth about the bullet train and its cost isn't being reported

Dear Editor,

Running Bullet Train down the U.S. 101 median is baloney bunk. We're missing the point - who's going to pay for it? Supersonic Jet costs are much cheaper, if you include all costs and don't use the bait-and-switch accounting methods of the Valley Transportation Authority or the San Benito Council off Governments. Use legal accounting to see truth in transport.

Second, even if you do find someone stupid enough to pay for it - $1 to $4 billion annual operating losses, plus construction costs now estimated at $81 billion - how do you get past Union Pacific Railroad's property? Unless we're now going to nationalize the American railroads, you don't without the UPRR's permission.

Why in hell aren't you reporting the true story? Your readers deserve much better. Let's have truth in transportation.

Joe Thompson, Gilroy