Just waiting for that 3.5 trillion to get the train back on the tracks.
And Tesla left.
I’m surprised they’ve left the word “bullet” with the name of the train. Seems like an obvious choice for a new name.
“The state has budgeted $22.8 billion to build a partial segment from Bakersfield to Merced.”
Ok, so the cows have transportation, but what options will HUMANS have?
Wow. We can all travel to the industrial, technology, and tourist powerhouses of Merced to Bakersfield in record time in the comfort of a bullet train. All I have to do is pack up the car, Drive to the station, pay the parking fee to park near the train station, unload my luggage, load up the train, get to my destination, then unpack the train, go to the rental care counter, rent a car, load up the rental car, do my business, then drive back and do the whole process again. What’s not to love.
How much money does it take to fill a bottomless pit?
Bakersfield to Merced? It makes absolutely no sense at all.
Sure I know it was supposed to be something else; and they hope it will become something more in the future. But that’s going to be another problem for another day.
Would be better to expand the highways to accommodate for future autonomous vehicles - electric or otherwise. Commuter trains will be obsolete when the day that autonomous vehicles can take passengers point to point arrives and that day may be closer than the day they connect LA to SF via train.
Train to nowhere
The money spent on this boondoggle train could build dozens of desalination plants and reservoirs, going a long way to solving CA’s water problems during droughts. Instead, we are stuffing that money into the pockets of the mega rich.
who the hell would even think about building a bullet train in the most unstable region of the country?? first thoughts of mine when they just started publicly pondering the idea out there. GD train, zipping along at 250kpm+ and a 7.5 earthquake hits... you’re not gonna stop fast enough before some major destruction occurs!! how fkn stupid can you get!!???
Are planes flying from Bakersfield to Merced?
AOC wants to replace all airplanes with trains.
And we have only 9 years to go!
We better speed up!
Seriously, this boondoggle is a great illustration of where the government regulations got us.
The worst problem is not the construction itself, but all the land purchases, lawsuits and environmental regulation. It is almost impossible to build anything anymore, especially in California.
Even if the life on Earth depended on it.
Every time I see one of these postings about California’s LA to SF (original concept), I praise Governor (now US Senator) Rick Scott of Florida. Obama ‘gifted’ then GOP Gov. Charlie Crist (Jeb’s protege) with the Tampa-Orlando I-4 HSR (High-Speed Rail). Charlie near wet himself with joy!
Rick Scott came into office and cancelled the whole project a year later. Everybody who was tasting the money SCREAMED but his chop stuck! Obama said that he would give Florida’s grant to California! Boy, did that make a real difference! (Yes, this is sarcasm!)
FYI: GOP Charlie morphed into Independent and then to ‘D’im and is my outgoing US Rep as he tries to unseat Ron DeSantis as Florida Governor. What a resume that boy has got! (Why yes, this is more sarcasm! How nice of you to notice!)
Shocked! I am absolutely shocked!
California is not the least bit worried. They know Mitch McConnell and his merry bunch of RINO’s will soon send them more than enough more to waste on this project.
It goes nearly a third as fast as a plane. 19th century solutions to 21st century issues.
Pity. It was going so well.
Bull$#!t Train.