Posted on 03/20/2015 6:43:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To the surprise of absolutely no one familiar with the ways of Corruptifornia, the one-party state completely in the hands of the Democrats, a consortium whose lead firm is controlled by Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Diane Feinstein, was awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco and Los Angeles. Those paying attention to the project call it the “half-fast” rail line because it will share trackage with conventional commuter rail trains in the sprawling Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, lowering its average speed to levels achieved by American railways a century ago.
Crazifornia.com writes:
The Perini-Zachary-Parsons bid was the lowest received from the five consortia participating in the bidding process, but “low” is a relative term. The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno. Do the division, and you find that the low bid came in at a mere $35 million per mile.
And that doesn’t include the cost of rolling stock (that’s engines and cars to the normal among us). Nor does it include the cost of electrifying the route. Does it at least include the cost of land acquisition? No, it does not.
As this fiasco progress, remember that this $35 million per mile represents the best California can do on the section of track the High on Crack Speed Rail Authority selected to go first because it will be the cheapest.
Tutor-Perini, the lead contractor controlled by Di-Fi’s hubby, has an (ahem) interesting history. From The National Black Chamber of Commerce:
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Or a water pipeline from the northwest
Maybe they can use it to bring water from the north.
Right. The money should be built on aqueducts, dams, reservoirs. On everything that will help California’s water situation. I am not an expert on this but forget spending billions on the choo choo train
Accountability, people! When bureaucrats propose such massive projects, if and when they are approved, it should be done with a contingency of ‘If this fails, it’s your ass! The status quo if politicians using government funds and resources to test their projections must end. They come up with what turns out to be a colossal failure, they walk away usually richer, and we have to pay all the bills while they escape unscathed. It’s gotta stop!
Ah, her work is done ...
Hmmm - yeah, I guess some things are a bit too subtle for some folks ...
Any bids from minority construction companies?
Minority construction companies?
Shoot, Senators be da smallest one there be. Jist one hunner of em.
And this is in addition to the $1 billion he stands to make make from the sale of post offices?
Feinstein and her husband should be in jail for their wheeling and dealing with private interests in China while she served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The people of California are imbeciles for electing this moron on several occasions.
Yes.
Yes, that too.
Correct. And with fineswine able to make some bucks, she’ll be all over that. Screw the water and the farmers.
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