[DIRTYSECRET]

Keep the right-of-ways. Just don’t build it.

[goldstategop]

As Willie Green says, “build it and they will come.”

Oh wait... they can’t even design and build a bridge for it!

Still the Bullet Train To Nowhere.

[KarlInOhio]

Mechanically stabilized earth structures are typically less costly to build than cast concrete systems, but have a high failure rate...

Couldn't they have used papier-mâché and Elmer's glue?

[LRoggy]

I can see it now. 30 years the thing will be ready for opening after spending $150 billion to link SF and LA and the day before it opens a big earthquake hits, knocking at 50% of the bridges.

The greatest waste of money in world history.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Follow the money going to all the RAT donors in CA and right to Moonbeam and his Assembly cohorts, wanna bet?

[Seaplaner]

Order of operations for Bullet Train construction.

1. Build

2. Design

3. Raise estimate of cost and also extend delay

[samadams2000]

The Mex Met will never be finished.

[rktman]

What if the bridge authority ordered part of the “J” train torn down?

[Fungi]

This train to nowhere should not see the light of day. Moonbeam Brown will be gone in a few months and this, like Obozo’s legacy, should be torn down and forever shown to be the union boondoggle that it is.

[Jim Robinson]

Shut it down.

[Moonman62]

Trump is having an audit done of the federal funds that have gone into this scam.

[PAR35]

Sounds like a great idea to me. Set concrete bridge pillars on top of fill dirt. What could go wrong? After all, it’s not like California has mudslides, or earthquakes....

[robel]

No problem. It’s democratville. There’s always more tax money.

[catnipman]

affirmative action hiring or simple incompetence due to systemic education failures? you decide ...

[catnipman]

“Having to tear down work and redesign it is an early warning sign of lack of program management,” said Robert Bea, an emeritus civil engineering professor at UC Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. “It is very unusual. It is not common.”

yeah, no shit Sherlock ...

[technically right]

Frankly I don’t give a shit what they do just don’t come begging to the Federal Government to bail this POS out. All the more reason to make sure DJT gets a second term.

[Forty-Niner]

The whole bullet train project will cost 20 times it’s original cost estimate due to kickbacks and corruption between politicians and the various union construction contractors. Before it even started I could hear a giant sucking sound headed for my back right pocket. California is due for a voter revolt.

[crz]

This is the only high speed train I would care to ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

A buddy of mine owns a building and has, until recently, rented to Caltrans for about 20 years. Lucky him, they bought his building for him. He showed me some insight into the internal workings of this agency. There are basically 30 people who have to be copied with emails when it comes to changing a fluorescent light in the ceiling. He showed me the email chain. It was jaw-dropping how many man hours of work, and woman hours, went into the decision as to when to schedule a work man to come in and change two bad 4 foot fluorescent tube lamps in a fixture.

[SpaceBar]

$2300/inch.