How Sacramento operates. I may be giving those creeps too much credit. They probably don't actually care what this costs; it's just about continuing the boondoggle for their union cronies.
That's $20,467,836.25 per mile to go from Fresno to Bakersfield
That’s what corrupt WOKE-ism, DEI and ESG will do to you.
It will never carry a single passenger.
Pretty soon they’ll be competing with the reparations budget
The initial phase is $10 billion underfunded.
I don’t see that as a problem. Just raise taxes on people in the state and/or charge riders more. Tax tourists more too.
Pay and pay and be proud.
This boondoggle has been in the works for decades with billions already flushed and nothing accomplished. By the time they complete the train that goes from horsetown to orchardville, people will have personal drones to take the trip.
Just $100 billion?
Heck, that’s peanuts when the federal government can just declare another emergency and bail them out with deficit funding that doesn’t have to be paid back.
As I understand it, they can almost get up to speed before
cutting back...
I don’t think it’s operational though.
I’ve told folks, not to count this one out yet. Newsom
did come out and say it was done, but he caught a fair
amount of heat over it, and backtracked.
I do note the new Las Vegas ride from the LA area is now
touted to only cost around $13 billion. The one that is
now over $100 billion in the red started out at around
$10 billion when first voted on.
How Sacramento operates. I may be giving those creeps too much credit. They probably don't actually care what this costs; it's just about continuing the boondoggle for their union cronies.
To be fair it is more like Merced/Chowchilla/Madera to Bakersfield. (Changes yearly)...current business plan is Merced to Bako for the “initial operating segment”. ;-) 320% over budget and not one inch of track laid yet!
Two new regional airports in the East Bay, two more new ones in the Inland Empire, and a whole lot of Boeing and Airbus hardware can be had for far less this rail scam.
This is by far the easiest section to build. Flat, cheap, sparsely populated agricultural land with excellent access. Other section to SF and LA will have to traverse hills, mountains and some of the most valuable real estate in the country. If it is ever completed, it will exceed $250B and be a financial albatross around CA’s neck for generations. It will cost an order of magnitude more to operate than it will take in from ticket sales. CA will have to create a new tax to pay for it, probably a mileage tax added to your car registration. And of course, they will do their best to force the rest of the country to pay for it.
A hundred Billion dollar laundry.
Way past time to cut the losses - use the money for water storage and power
generation.
As a tourist it seems what they need is a high speed option from San Diego to Los Angeles. Apparently it would take 8 hours from Anaheim to San Diego taking the bus. (using google maps)
It’s working even better than planned. The sole purpose of this project is to transfer money from Washington to Sacramento.
Whoa! Who could have seen that one coming?
171 miles for $35 billion is $200 million per mile, not $20 million.
The pylons for the elevated train tracks will make a good framework to build affordable housing for bums and illegals.
Sure make the rest of America pay for that total waste of money,,,,,