Posted on 08/11/2014 7:40:42 AM PDT by george76
The cost of the high-speed rail project might be going above the current estimate of $68 billion.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently announced a strategic shift to consider an alternative for its 40-mile Palmdale-to-Burbank link. Instead of the current plan of running it parallel to the Palmdale Freeway, the new line would run through a tunnel under the San Gabriel Mountains.
According to Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who has advanced the idea, the tunnel would be about 15 miles long.
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it’s possible to calculate a rough — very rough – estimate. Let’s start with something we know: the tunneling cost for the proposed extension of the Long Beach 710-Freeway: $6 billion for a 4.9-mile segment, which works out to $1.22 billion per mile.
As mentinoned, the San Gabriel Mountain tunnel link for high-speed rail would be 15 miles long. If it costs as much do dig that tunnel as the 710 freeway extension, that would be $1.22 billion per mile, or $18.3 billion total (15 miles X $1.22 billion per mile = $18.3 billion.)
(Excerpt) Read more at calwatchdog.com ...
Think of all the union jobs to be created.
That’s the goal.
Let’s ship a bunch of Hamas terrorists in, tell them it is a secret tunnel to blow up the white house, and let them at it.
I bet it could be done for less than a billion.
You know that somebody is going to cut some corners in order to get the lowest bid.
BART has a tunnel going under SF Bay in earthquake country but it's not fifteen miles long. My ears pop when in the tunnel. I think claustrophobia would prevent me from riding a train in a fifteen mile long tunnel.
They can’t build a bridge without making major mistakes, across the SF Bay and you want me to think they can build a 15 mile tunnel? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They will essentially rent it back at inflated rates as “public transportation”. A similar situation exists for the millions of acres of BLM land out west. If it wasn’t profitable to posess, they’d sell or otherwise liquidate it back into the private sector.
Do mistake your claustrophobia for good common sense.
Ugh...bureaucrats, union members, crony capitalists..Lord save us!
Oh plz.. if ever completed, this boondoggle is a 125 billion dollar monster.. they so underestimated the costs.
Typical pie in the sky California Dreamin’
Jerry Browns first term as governor in the 1970’s setup California to fail. He has come back to finish the job.
Yep, idiots! Trust me, nobody in CA wants this "train to nowhere" except a few politicians of the liberal persuasion!
You don’t have to bury the earth quake victims.
A tunnel? In one of the most seismically active areas of the world?
ROFLMAO!
... and their crook contractors.
Just where I want to be when the Big One hits on a high speed train and underground, I mean what could happen??
So glad we got out of there before we had to pay for this garbage.
Moonbeam joins hand in hand with Obama in destroying things they are in charge of.
I suspect Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi do.
Why would water be cutoff to the Central valley except to drive down land values?
In repeated measurements of the different fault breaks at locations following the earthquake, the results remained consistent, leading to the belief that most of the slip had occurred during the mainshock. While lateral, transverse, and vertical motions were all observed after the earthquake, the largest individual component of movement was 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) of left lateral slip near the middle of the Sylmar segment. The largest cumulative amount of slip of 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) occurred along the Sylmar and Tujunga segments, and the overall fault displacement was summarized by geologist Barclay Kamb and others as "nearly equal amounts of north-south compression, vertical uplift (north side up), and left lateral slip and hence may be described as a thrusting of a northern block to the southwest over a southern block, along a fault surface dipping about 45° north."[10]
“Yeah, a tunnel in earthquake country sounds like a great idea to me.”
Ohhhhh, dear God!
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