High Speed Rail project cost jumps to $77 billion, opening delayed [CA]

AP ^ | March 9, 2018 | Kathleen Ronayne

[C19fan]

The projected cost of California's bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033, according to a business plan released Friday.

The two-year plan presented by the California High-Speed Rail Authority is the first under new chief executive Brian Kelly, who has promised more transparency about the project's challenges after years of cost increases and delays.

[C19fan]

Just a pile of money burning.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Cost overruns on a pork barrel rail project? Gosh, who could have ever seen that coming?

[goldstategop]

The Train To Nowhere.

[Paladin2]

Can’t Calif. enslave the illegals and make them build the railroad?

[Vaquero]

Big dig west.

[vette6387]

The good news is that Jerry Brown is unlikely to be there for the opening!

[goldstategop]

Willie Green loved the bullet train. But $77 billion?

C’mon. This is the Taj Mahal of trains.

[Gay State Conservative]

So given my current age it's highly,*highly* unlikely that I'll ever get to ride it but my tax dollars are surely being poured down *that* particular rathole.

[W.]

Oh I know where you can plant Jerry Brown after he croaks!

[rockinqsranch]

Just what we need a rolling platform for the Democrat’s homeless.

[Professional]

But, it’s VITALLY important for sure! You can’t drive from San Fran to Los Angeles, you can’t fly from there to thee, nor can you sail.....no, the only option is a never ending public project that will cost a pillion dollars by the time it’s done in 2238...

[JoSixChip]

Does not open for 15 years and money is pouring into the project. Wonder how many billionaire politicians that will create? I’d love to see a special prosecutor look into this boondoggle.

[Enchante]

2033!!!!!

Why don’t they just leave it to the great-grandchildren to decide if they want to build the thing.... by that point the technologies and costs will be so much more favorable, probably for a new aerial system and not trains at all.

[fhayek]

What is this thing going to do that a good commuter plane can’t do for 1/10,000th of the cost?

[rrrod]

What could go wrong?

[mountainlion]

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to fly them for free?

[KarlInOhio]

Cost overrun and behind schedule? Here's my shocked face.

[Gay State Conservative]

Big dig west.

Aha! You've heard of our "Big Dig".The only thing I ever heard Barney Frank say that I agreed with was in connection to the Big Dig.When speaking of the cost he said "it would be cheaper to raise the city than to lower the highway".

[goldstategop]

It was pitched at a low-ball, too good to be true cost. Its amazing how much paperwork has been generated with nothing gotten done.

A monument to Democrat extravagance.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What was the original projected cost?