It was never really going to go from LA to SF, but would go through the Central Valley so the illegal aliens can get around.
He didn’t cancel that part of it, Bakersfield to, I think, Merced.
A bullet train between Bakersfield and Merced—two major population centers. What kind of ridership are they expecting on that?
Bakersfield to, I think, Merced.
Today’s news is just the crack in the dam starting to show a trickle.
Now that SF to LA is abandoned, all bonds under the original ballot proposition will be invalidated. Any pipe dreams of public private partnership are fading to oblivion, leaving only carbon tax money to pay for it.
Somewhere around 250 to 400 million a year is all that’s available. It won’t surprise me if half of that gets burned through just for environmental lawsuits. Progress will be so slow that within a couple years Newsome will have to pull the plug entirely.
They’ll be lucky to complete one mile per year at this point.
It was never really going to go from LA to SF, but would go through the Central Valley so the illegal aliens can get around.”””
The backside of all of this?
Jerry Brown & the Dems TOOK THE WATER AWAY FROM THE CENTRAL VALLEY FARMERS to the point where the illegals now have NO JOBS.
Dittos.
It was a payoff to the Unions and Illegals