Posted on 05/17/2023 5:40:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
But 15 years later, there is not a single mile of track laid, and executives involved say there isn’t enough money to finish the project.
Do they even understand how broken the government must be?
$9B ????????????????????????????????????????????
Oh, h3ll no, you silly goose. Camping underneath is for druggies, derelicts, and winos. Illegals get put up in four and five star hotels.
Running out of money is progress in itself. But you know, all the time, it was “other people’s money”, and nothing that California was creating out of thin air.
California is not Japan, a nation that developed its rail transport system out of economic need and auspicious industry on the part of its citizens. There is none of that in this largely idle dream of ivory tower “thinkers” who are somehow romantically linked to rail transport as a “perfect” people mover.
An air shuttle service between the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego already exists, and has been entirely sufficient for the needs of the elite to move back and forth as required by the enterprises they pursue. Everybody else has become resigned to moving themselves by self-propelled vehicles moving on a complex roadway system.
That this system is failing is lack of an honest vision of what California REALLY needs.
“California’s high-speed rail is running out of money, but progress has been made”
California’s has run out of money
There, fixed it
They’ve spend $9.8 BILLION and there is literally nothing to show for it. Does anyone else think that this is just a transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich elites who them kickback some to the politicians?
The Simpson’s were way ahead if their time.
I have a meeting 20 miles from here this morning. I’ve gotten out of bed. I’ve “made progress” in the same sense.
Indonesia and Morocco have high speed rail.
We don’t.
That says a lot.
California High Speed Rail Authority established under republican Pete Wilson. Funding first began under republican Schwarzenegger. They have never made any bones about the fact that the federal government would be paying much of the cost, although they lied about how much, early on. Now, it is clear, we all will be paying the major part for this bipartisan California Folly.
Most of what it says is America is a richer country in which people have cars. Our cities are built around the individual mobility allowed by the car. Things are far apart. We don't have nearly the population density you see in much of the rest of the world - ie our people prefer detached single family homes rather than being shoehorned into massive apartment towers. Because of this much lower population density, a lot of public transportation which makes sense elsewhere in the world is simply not going to make sense for us.
Even if you can get from LA to Fresno, what then? You arrive at the city center or wherever the trains tops and......and public transport is lacking or very very crappy. So you then have to rent a car to get around once you arrive. So people say "screw it" and just drive their own car.
The got the right of way land-—literally DIRT CHEAP.
Calif SHUT OFF water supplies to those acres & acres of farming land—dried it up—and then bought it for a song
“ We can’t get this project done without federal support. It’s just not going to happen.“
After 15 years, the truth comes out.
They’ve spend $9.8 BILLION and there is literally nothing to show for it.
Whatever happened to our Choo Choo Freeper?
I looked on their website. There are no reports of who owns/ed the property that the rail project is buying for this boondoggle. I would imagine Pelosi, Feinstein, Newsome, and every other grifter evil democrat has made remarkably well timed real estate purchases.
About 350 mile drive. 500 million dollars per mile of train to save 3 hours of drive time... Except the time you have to drive to the train station, unload the car, get to the destination, find a rental car, go to your destination, then rinse and repeat to go home.
Has one rider rode the train to somewhere yet?
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