That money is gone. Politicos took it years ago.
Like the >$200M that Newscum “used” to racially gerrymander all GOP members out of Congress. That has already been skimmed.
Like the $100M bucket that was raised to provide relief to those made homeless by the Newscum/Bass fire at PacificPalisades — none of that money made it way to those no longer in houses
Like the $Billions blown on the BulletTrain.
Like the $24B on “homeless” programs — which only decreased the number of such street bums by letting them die.
The list is long. And, the other 49 states fund it all.
An 8 mile bike path shouldn’t cost more than 1 million dollars and should have been completed in 90 days.
Money laundering.
OMG Newsome can’t even build a bike path……LMAO, along with the train that goes NOWHERE he is writing his own ads for the GOP in 2028 what a damn MORON!!! It is utterly insane that an 8 mile SIDEWALK could cost in the BILLIONS!!!
But, as the year nears a close, the bike path still isn’t open. In fact, construction hasn’t even started, and the environmental review process is still in the early stages.
That they are still working on an Environmental Impact Stury is incredibly stupid.
The Environmental Impact Study should have amounted to this: The proposed bike path will be built immediately adjacent to the Los Angeles River. Any environmental impact that may occur has already happened by by building the LA River no further study is required.
A bike path costing a proposed $45,6250,000 per mile should have been rejected to start with.
The current project should be closed down and everyone working on it fired.
The entire 8 mile path should be given a budget of a total of $45,625,000 or $5,703,000 per mile - 1/8 the original estimate.
No state agency should be involved.
The per mile budget should be doled out to localities in grants to complete the project on their own terms, requiring only that they achieve the connections of the path at the localities boundaries. That could permit localities to contract with vendors who could work on the project for more than one locality.
Localities must be allowed to set their own “environmental” requirements with no state questioning. Before any money is given to localities they would have to get their own vendor estimates and set their own timelines for completing their section of the path. No additional funds would be permitted. Any cost overruns would be born by the localities.
Localities would only be required to coordinate how their plans will join each other but do have to agree with when. Once the grants were given to the localities they would be penalized and owed refunds to the state if the their part in the project failed to meet their own promised timeline.
Every incentive is to urge the localities to not spend more than the grants they are given and meet their own timelines.
A) This $1 billion 8 mile bike path
B) California High Speed Rail
C) Newscum presidential campaign
or
D) None of the above because the Dems wants more money to embazzle...
A decade in, how much have they pulled in under this tax?
Are they making this bike path out of 24 K gold...lined with 24 K gold??? 8 miles for $1,000,000,000?
Who is stealing the money...what a grift!