It will overrun costs by a factor of five, minimum.
Of course there will be overruns.
A mere 1% overrun is $680,000,000 ... that’s quite the incentive to go over a little, many times.
The only bullet a California pol gets morning wood over.
What could go wrong?
Derogatory comments at site.
As I recall, the final cost of Boston’s “Big Dig” was about 10 times what it was originally estimated - $20 billion vs. $2 billion.
Is there any reason to think California’s bullet-train will be any different (aside from the fact that CA doesn’t have a chance-in-hell of coming up with a half-trillion dollars)?
In other news, water is wet.
With more particulate pollution from one project than all others combined.
Oooooh. Can’t wait to get to beautiful downtown Burbank.
Of course it is. It’s only purpose is to shuttle money from the taxpayers to multinational corporations and labor unions.
Because its a scam like the rest
I think mullet train would suffice...
The whole boondoggle smells....like fish.
Every sane persn knows this is a boondoggle makework fustercluck.
Welcome to CA, we’re just swimming in Money, no really. LOL
Instead of building more reservoirs, pumping stations, water pipelines, desalination plants, prisons, roads, etc., the Stalinists in Sacramento intend to spend 100s of billions on a worthless train that runs between the high desert and Las Vegas. Doesn’t go anywhere near Los Angeles. Bribes, kickbacks, payoffs, and all manner of criminal acts are at play.
-——Rail officials have said they plan to choose a route and secure environmental approvals for the Burbank-to-Merced line by 2017, at which point the tunneling itself could be put out to bid-——
They aren’t even going to start to build the tunnel boring machines until 2019...
They haven’t even got past the environment paperwork....
They are building actually a twin bore tunnel, so it’s 72 miles of tunneling...
It will be completed by 2022....?
Wow... Someone is living in a complete and total fantasyland....
With an extended period of draught and resulting water shortage which also will impact their agriculture they would be a whole lots better off by investing in huge desalination projects which could be powered by solar power as they have plenty of sunshine.
As far as water conservation is concerned they could take a few lessons from the Israelis, who would be more than willing to furnish the blue prints for huge hydroponic growth centers, which use minimal amounts of water and at the same time raise fish as well as a byproduct.
Not only that but it also would produce many jobs in regards to maintenance, growing procedures and shipping. But well before something like this would be implemented conditions will have to get lots worse before anyone sees the light, and I have a feeling that we are headed this way.
The train to nowhere.
Really quite unexpected...