I hope the catch the politicians who have been stealing.
Claw back the money.
About time.
I don’t trust any feds any more either tho.
The problem of getting a person across a state from border to border in a day’s comfortable travel is not by speeding up a train or highway speed limit. For California (and Texas, perhaps) it would be by subdividing the state into three or four smaller state-sized manageable governed areas. As it was for the Carolinas, Virginia, and the Dakotas in other years, to wit. Mot joking.
This is like the whitest of white elephants, not to be racist or anything.
Can they arrest Gov. Moonbeam for defrauding the US Govt? I’d love to see him in a jail jumpsuit. A fitting end to an asshole Marxist wackjob.
IF the original rules written in the proposition had been followed not one dime would have been spent because private funding never showed up
*** essentially a pet project that’s billions in the red, seven years behind schedule and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. ***
I can drive from the Bay Area to any place in Los Angeles faster than this Slow Boat to China.
After millions spent on unsuccessful eminent domain suits, and hundreds of millions more in paying contractors not to work, the chances that any federal funds are left are slim, leaving Calif in the awkward position of facing federal fund clawback.
A trip down memory lane, and I doubt much has changed since:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-tutor-20150303-story.html
One way to stop this.....ban bullets in CA! /sarc
Who all has relatives moving out of California, because spending your retirement paying $10,000 a year in taxes for a snail train is uneconomical?
The whole purpose of this train was to launder taxpayer through Democrat supporters into Democrat coffers.
As far as I can tell, it has been a smashing success!
“The cost to move power lines, construction cables and other utility components out of the way was estimated to be around $25 million....In five years, that number has jumped to nearly $400 million.”
Sheesh.
Paging Willie Green, Paging Wille Green, Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
(I actually miss the Willie Green Happy Choo Choo threads.)
“”According to the DOT, the inspector general’s audit will examine the Federal Railroad Administration’s oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.””
First I’ve ever heard of a Federal Railroad Administration. Maybe they should have stayed “hidden” as they may have a lot to answer for....
Why would it have to have gotten to this degree of boondoggle before someone blew the whistle?