Who knew the cost of
ballooning would affect
bullet trains?
Now Trump should have California audited for where the money was spent. I understand that Newsome said they were going to keep 3.55 billion in transportation funds. If you take that and add it to the 1.37 billion congress wants to give Trump for the wall, you have over 5 billion.
Good deal.
Private companies built railroads in the 1800s.
Imagine.
on the bright side, you will now be able to get from downtown Bakersfield to downtown Merced a few minutes faster than driving your car...except your car will still be in downtown Bakersfield and you will be in downtown Merced needing a ride..
Here’s hoping Texas learns from California’s example and cuts bait on the Houston-Dallas train before too much is spent
Build dams, retain the rainwater/runoff instead of flushing it into the Pacific, and irrigate your growing valleys, and help feed the Nation, as you once did. And quit diverting the Colorado river water.
Do something purposeful, for once in the last 40 years, Sacramento idiots.
Who profited from the endless studies and such? Pelosi? Will there be an audit?
can he cancel this without another ballot initiative ?
will he pay back the feds ?
Texas is trying to build a bullet-train. The difference? Its ALL privately funded.
This was the same type of project that then-Governor Rick Scott rejected in Florida. He said it would be too expensive and he wasn’t going to put Florida on the hook for it. Everyone hee-hawed him for not taking Obama Stimulus money. Turns out... he was right.
Your tax dollars squandered. Milton Friedman made it clear that if a project made economic sense, private capital would come forward and barring government regulatory obstruction, it would get built. Anything that requires “government subsidy” is a money loser. If there were real justice, the Federal government should audit just who ended up with the subsidy dollars. Suspect there are some Democratic office holders who are just a bit worried if such an audit in fact happens.
$77 billion is a bargain. California should build that bullet train.
Washington state is taxing $54 billion for 20 miles of light rail in north Seattle. I think they put out a pie-in-the-sky initiative expecting voters to turn it down, then coming up with a “reasonable” version in response.
But the toque-wearing tokers in Seattle voted it in. Now my kids will be paying for it forever.
AOC is deeply saddened.
Where is the money budgeted, though not yet spent?
They should have just expanded a highway that allowed Autobahn speeds, a roadway that has a minimum speed limit of 120mph.
Now they have all these never to be finished columns that will just be good for bird nesting and hanging gardens.
It was supposed to be a $10 billion dollar project taking 10 years to complete. After 10 years and $77 billion down the drain, estimated completion year was 2033.
So......what do you have to say about that, Dumb@ss Occasional Cortex? !? This is proof positive that your stupid “Green New Deal” is beyond laughable. You need to resign, Occasional Cortex. Your stupidity and gross incompetence are inexcusable.
I guess Nancy Pelosi’s husband made enough money off this deal.
it was a dream that started out at $10B and flowery promises to taxpayers: if they would just dig a little deeper, take a little less home in their paychecks, there would be daisies and unicorns.
In the meantime, thousands of companies profited while water was taken to pressure and harass people off their land.
Give the land back. And compensate the farmers. It’s the least the state can do. Oh, and let the audits commence.
what took so long?