Wouldn’t be surprised if the project itself was a slush fund for unions and illegals.
Its “only” $77 billion.
So what if its a boondoggle, taj mahal, white elephant and cost overrun fiasco?
We still love our bullet train.
The newspaper people have to at least believe that the Democrats are giving them money in order for them to print lies by omission like that.
The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.
I don’t think most Californians need the press to inform them of cost overruns. It’s pretty much common knowledge.
In the 1930’s, Stalin wanted the Moscow subway to be a spectacular showcase of his ‘progressive’ system. This while his people starved and society collapsed. Sounds familiar.
I only care about the part of that $77 billion that non-Californians pony up through the DOT, EPA, DofAg, etc.
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So right now it will cost $97,000,000.00 per mile.
Doing some basic math, for the $77B just in construction costs (not to mention operating and maintenance costs), and figuring that a one-way ticket from LA to SF averages $77 (generously), you could buy 1 billion one-way tickets, or 500 million round trips, or over 10 round trip flights from LA to SF for every man, woman, and child in California, including Illegals. And then the operating subsidies and costs would likely buy everyone a round trip air ticket once a year.
Lefties love bullet trains, damn the cost. It makes them feel European, like dictatorships and female armpit hair.
The California Bullet Train is a scam. It sucks up funding and misappropriated it for other thing.
The “bullet train” is nothing more than slush fund for the Democrats. At some point in time it will be shut down (as too costly) and no audit will be done and the Democrats will move on to the next raid on the public treasury.
This is what happens in one party states when the media are lap dogs instead of watch dogs
What is the cost per rider?
In January, 2010, Obama breezed into Florida to promise then-GOP Gov. Charlie Crist (now Dem US Rep. from St.Petersburg) $1.25 billion to build 84 miles of track from Tampa to Orlando, which would allow trains to travel at up to 168 m.p.h., the first leg of a corridor that is eventually expected to go to Miami. At that time, the estimate for California’s COMPLETE L.A. to S.F. line was $45B for 220mph connector to which Obama promised a downpayment of $2.25B.
The difference 8 years later? Crist’s GOP successor, Rick Scott put a stop to the entire project, saying it was the equivalent of a taxpayer money hole with no end of costs. He and the stoppage survived numerous political and legal challenges. California, on the other hand remains enthusiastic and the costs have gone to $77B and many years longer to completion.
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FYI: One of the 'advantages' for the Tampa-Orlando route was a 'supposition' that the I-4 Interstate Corridor could easily expand to accommodate the rail line. More than a few pointed out that many (MANY) overpasses would need complete reconstruction for height necessities. Costs never go down from the original estimates but that is the cost that the proponents tout!
I maintain the biggest problem the MSM face is lack of intelligent thought throughout levels of decision-makers.
This results in weather updates all the time during TV news, and less time for actual reporting on stuff like this.
Print? Who the heck under 45 picks up a newspaper anymore?
Even the Sacramento Bee covered the details the author is whining about.
They’re screaming for gun control, yet they name their train to bankruptcy the “Bullet Train”.
Mafia winks