The CA train to nowhere runs out of taxpayer money

American Thinker ^ | 20 Jul, 2025 | Mike McDaniel

[MtnClimber]

I last wrote about California’s high-speed rail to nowhere in Democrat’s dying and dead mass people movers in June:

Approved by California voters in 2008, it was supposed to have run from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2030 at a cost of a mere $33 billion. Eventually, it was downscaled to a very short route in the Central Valley, and the costs are over $100 billion and still rising [it’s now around $130 billion]. All that and not a single foot of rail—for a railroad!—has been laid. A variety of bridges and other concrete and steel monoliths have been constructed, which will surely baffle future archeologists as they have no discernible purpose for a railroad that never was or will be. Might they have had some religious significance? Were they primitive astronomical observatories? Fertility temples?

Let’s repeat that. In 17 years, not a single foot of track has been laid, and California has a budget deficit of at least $12 billion dollars. I ended that article with this observation:

Well, at least Dems are consistent. They always choose the least efficient, most costly solutions to non-existent problems.

At PJ Media David Manney suggests the entire mess is Governor Gavin Newsom’s vanity project, a concrete and rebar—but no railroad track—monument to his greasy greatness. It’s a bit of greatness that Newsom scaled back in 2019 from a coast-to-coast wonder to a Central Valley “proof of concept” “test section.”

To date, that “test section” has absorbed the full cost of the original, bigger project with no end in sight. Give Newsom credit though, he’s proved the concept is impossible to build in California. If California wants to build this epic boondoggle, it will have to finance it alone. American taxpayers are out:

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TOPICS: Society
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[markman46]

There are two of these along hwy 99 connected to nothing, urs a joke, the kicker is the link from Bakersfield to la goes over the mountains and will need tunnels, maybe they should have started there first.

[markman46]

Not a soul will be riding the train yhe nowhere. They have not even upgraded the station here in Bakersfield yet.

[PCPOET7]

Live in CA part of central valley near Fresno and everyone where I live knows that most of the money was graft. the lawyers and consultants made out big on this with fees. another person to look at is Dian Feinstein’s husband on this when it comes to what actually happened when it comes to over budget work.