Posted on 02/12/2019 12:12:31 PM PST by tcrlaf
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he's abandoning a plan to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a project with an estimated cost that has ballooned to $77 billion.
"Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address. "The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency."
The idea long championed by Newsom's predecessor, Jerry Brown, is years behind schedule. The latest estimate for completion is 2033.
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Origanally supposed to be $10 Billion over 10 years, with gizmos and door-to-door service. Yet another in the long list of Democrat politically-correct Boondoggles
What about the NGD?
He’s dead Jim.
What does he expect people to use - airplanes? Better check with A O-C first!
got to wonder how many billions they flushed down that rat-hole.
WUT?!?!?!?!?!?! His kickback must have fallen through.
How many billions have already been spent on this boondoggle?
I'm guessing Gavin Newsom plans to use the money to fund illegal alien health care and housing...
In his defense, Newsom enters a plea of temporary sanity.
So Newsome wasn’t included in the graft scheme for this project.
Green New Deal Betrayal Alert!!!!
Next money boondoggle for the state: elimination of fossil fuels to be replaced by solar, wind, and fairy dust.
AOC needs to chica-splain’ to him about printing his own money for important stuff like this
But how are they going to travel when they close all airports by 2029???
Kickback, you say?
Trump says no more FEMA money for wildfires until you clean up the forests.
PG$E admits fault for starting fires.
PG$E goes bankrupt.
Nothing to see here....
Wow.
So far, I have agreed with Gavin Newsom 100% more than I ever agteeed with Brown.
Brown - never
Newsom - once
Obama’s Fail Rail
After reading Fred Reed’s China article, California should contract China to create their rail line. Dictatorships get things done. See Mussolini and the trains running on time.
How much taxpayer money has ALREADY been spent on studies, etc for this debacle?
“Let’s be real,” Newsom said in his first State of the State address. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.”
Who would have thought a radical left winger from SF would be the one to exercise the sense to end this folly. Newsome is still a vapid deranged out of touch with reality fool but even the worst among us occasionally experiences periods of lucidity.
It was still a terrific windfall for environmental lawyers, labor unions, and democrat candidates. Millions and millions transferred from taxpayers to democrats.
with our pending
JUST SO THEY CAN KEEP THE 4 BILLION IN FED MONEY!
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