“the proposed $68 BILLION plan”
California needs a lot of things—like desalinization plants (the new Israeli ones work fine) to end potential droughts.
And new power plants for its increasing population (try Thorium reactors).
All that can be done for a lot less than 68 BILLION.
But instead, California will get a high speed rail that runs from San Francisco to a terminal two hours by car from LA (from LA you DRIVE YOUR CAR to the terminal, two hours from Los Angeles, and then get on the high speed rail to San Francisco).
WHY is ANYONE backing his crazy scheme, by a bankrupt state, which is in dire need of fixes to much of its infrastructure?
WHY is ANYONE backing his crazy scheme, by a bankrupt state, which is in dire need of fixes to much of its infrastructure?
I will answer that one: Corruption. This is the old Aquaduct system on steroids.
I agree with you, they need water, they are going to lose 2 billion just this year in crop loss.
Flying is safer, faster, and much cheaper than this boondoggle and there are empty seats now, so there is no demand for Jerry’s train.
You could employ countless construction workers building desalination plants, laying the pipelines for transit, pumping stations and much more and collect loads of tax revenue in the sales of clean useable water to revitalized towns and the thousands of new homes that could be built in the desert if they had water.
As I recall, that 68 billion is about twice the original projected cost and about two thirds of the most recent projections. The completion “estimate” has also been pushed out by about twenty years.
There’s a whole lot of number fudging going on. It still looks like it’s going to be a disaster of epic proportions.