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Posted on 07/26/2025 11:00:04 AM PDT by John Semmens
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HSR is not, necessarily, a “colossal waste”.
Sending billions to California and getting NOTHING except for paid-off RAT bottom feeders is a colossal waste.
China has built 12,000 miles of HSR in the time that California politicians and their pets have consumed all that money. There are parts of the US where HSR would be a good thing to have - California is even one of them.
But before we are spending ten cents on anything in California, they need a functional government.
It is a waste, but there is no rail. Not even one mile of rail. How does this work? They should call it “High Speed Fever Dreams”.
This is the problem with all gov’t controlled projects: there is no incentive to be efficient. 2021, Congress allocated $7billion for 500,000 EV charging stations across the US. While most of the money has been spent, so far there are 8 new charging stations.
California taxpayers got railed. Good and hard and at a high speed.
World’s longest bicycle path.
High-speed rail (HSR) has been proposed between Dallas and Houston. I live 65 miles south of Dallas, and the drive up there typically takes about 90 minutes. The estimated travel time by HSR from Dallas to Houston is also 90 minutes. If the time required to get to the train station and get underway is anything like what it is with air travel, that could easily add another two hours.
I can typically drive from my home to Houston in about three hours—and I’d have my own transportation once I get there.
Somehow the USA was able to build the worlds first, largest and best national rail system 150 years ago.
How did they do it? There was zero government involvement, besides right-of-way permitting.
Since when did rail transport become the sole domain of the Left?
Sir, do you own this date farm?
Well, we have to cut a 200-yard-wide swath directly through the middle of it and build a 7-mile detour so you can manage the other half of your farm...
Oh yes, we forgot to mention that the water canals feeding your farm have to be rerouted and slimmed down for efficiency...
Finally, we have improved the roads north of your farm, so your drives into town will have to be increased by several miles...
Every obligation refers to a colossal job program for union workers. These workers know if project is finished they’re out of a job. It’s also a great money machine for contractors, real estate speculators, etc.
There’s no satire to the waste of this project.
There’s no satire to the waste of this project.
There’s no satire to the waste of this project.
There’s no satire to the waste of this project.
There’s no satire to the waste of this project.
I can’t deny the truth of Newsome’s claim.
My expectation from Day One: Billion$ wasted and stolen, major delays, budget explosion, nothing useful to show for it. Yep, he’s met every expectation.
Gov. Gavin Newsom. Sounds like Boss Tweed has been reincarnated in California.
The homeless industrial complex has spent far more then the train to nowhere. Newsom and the democrats are a criminal enterprise.
Newsom spent $24 billion on the homeless. The homeless population went from over 40,000 in Los Angeles to over 70,000.
He says he does not know where the money went...
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