California's bullet train hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, federal report warns

Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/14/2017 | Ralph Vartabedian

[A_Former_Democrat]

Well, GEE . .. Who EVER would’ve predicted this?

[stocksthatgoup]

Color me surprised. lol

[goldstategop]

As Willie Green would say, the train to nowhere is a symbol of the mess California is in.

It wants to build a train no one wants when the state has far more critical priorities waiting to be addressed.

Its the White Elephant of Golden State liberalism run amok.

[allendale]

Hopefully they won’t get a dime from Trump or the Republican congress.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

In other news Senator Dianne Feinstein’s wealth has increased dramatically.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I think the real engineers and cost accounts figured the cost at least 100 billion .... the other was just pap to get it approved.

[glasseye]

Look at the cost over runs building the new span for the Bay Bridge in SF.
If memory serves a 500 million $$$ bridge replacement became a 6 billion dollar replacement bridge.
High speed rail will be the same story, only more $$$.

[NEBO]

Surprise Surprise.... NOT,

[goldstategop]

For the politicians, its a vanity project to get their names in the headlines.

The market would never build it. Politically connected projects have no connection to reality.

[DoughtyOne]

Just end the damned thing. It never should have been started in the first place.

They sold the whole project at vastly understated costs.

This is just the first segment and they’re already 50% over. By the time it became a reality, it would be 200, 300, or more percent over budget, and then they’d want to expand it.

Hell NO!

[DoughtyOne]

BULLET TRAIN BLUNDER BUS

[DannyTN]

[SeekAndFind]

It took us less than 2 years to build the Empire State Building in the height of the great depression. Now every building project in this country takes at least 5 years (if we're lucky).

[Fai Mao]

What is the deal the left in the US and trains?

[beethovenfan]

Moonbeam’s folly (one of them).

[sasquatch]

Santa Cruz Co. CA’s purchase of a “bullet” train for hikers and bikers (pedals; not shovelheads) has the same problem. If anyone’s interested, I’ll dig up some data.

[ronnie raygun]

scam from the beginning money allocated elsewhere probably for illegals

[Future Snake Eater]

[rtwingxtremist]

Is that guy on the end drinking gin? At that height? Makes me queasy just looking at it.

Imagine any of our little snowflakes doing that job.