Hmm...let’s see, that’s 164 miles on 99, $14.1 billion divided by 164 is just under $86 million a mile. I’m in the wrong business.
Wonder what the fare would be and how many people would ride it to somehow generate enough money to pay for the initial funds plus interest plus maintenance and salaries and administration and …..
Open up that firebox door and let’s shovel some more taxpayer money into the Pelosi Special!
Musk will be on Mars before this mess is completed.
And probably for a much lower cost per mile.
The kelptocrats misrunning California see the project as a slush fund.
It’s going to be the world’s most expensive rail-to-trail
That is the scam
I can almost guarantee they will exceed $1 trillion on this project to build it and possibly never see a revenue passenger for at least a decade if ever at this point.
“...home to more than 25% of the nation’s homeless.”
The homeless don’t have a home, or they wouldn’t be homeless. Journalism at its finest.
bureaucrat nirvana...the entire budget converted to salaries, bennies and retirement.
No pesky service, bricks, mortar, rails or cars sucking up cash
Steel prices for the rails have tripled since this boondoggle was started.
It is much much cheaper to fly then travel by rail.
It’s the “Flash Train”. It burns up money in a flash.
Coastal Californians' response: "Where? To where?"
From nowhere to no where. May as well stay on the bus
At least in the old days people ended up with a Golden Calf. Now it’s just a pile of receipts.
In Detroit the goal was to have the People Mover rail system travel from the southernmost limit of downtown at the Detroit River, north to the end of the city at 8 Mile Road. Thus no congestion from interstates and roads and dangers to drivers from crime all the way. Suburbs begin at 8 Mile.
Today: long ago the dream died and the total area covered is only 2.79 miles in a tiny loop around downtown and out a little and back.
All aaaaBOARDD!!!
The Choo Choo to NoWhere eXpre$$ is about to leave the tracks.. Destination :: (Seriesly)?
Cinch up your masks!!
A lot of folks forget that SchwarzenKennedy was for this boondoggle before he soured on it down the road. Jerry Brown just kept the dough flowing altho he claimed to be a people’s gubinor.
2008 FR thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043208/posts
It’s a dusty dump connecting another dusty dump. Idiots.