California Bites Bullet of $1.8M Per Day for Failed High-Speed Train

Newsmax ^ | October 9, 2022 | Eric Mack

[roadcat]

Boy have times changed…. Just think it only took 6 years to complete the first transcontinental railroad from Nebraska to Sacramento, completed in 1869..

Actually, the build of the transcontinental railroad was full of corruption and theft of government funding by politicians. The difference is that politicians were more capable and brilliant at stealing the money and doing payoffs. The Big Four gangsters behind the build became filthy rich, of them robber baron Leland Stanford became the California governor and founded Stanford University. Our politicians now can't even do corruption correctly, let alone build a railroad.

[Navy Patriot]

They can’t build a 350-mile rail line? But the US was doing this in the 1930’s.

Engineering in compliance with the Laws of Physics to accomplish the promised speed require the roadbed to be level enough and straight enough that it would require property acquisition that is not politically survivable. It would not be ONLY rural property that would be taken for the route.

Additionally, there would be too few stops for passenger access, again necessary for attaining the promised speed.

[SuperLuminal]

Could have hired the Chicoms to build it...
Cheaper and probably complete by now...

However, the actual purpose of any infrastructure that communists, worldwide, begin is to gain even more control of the serfs and their possessions...

CA is a clear example...
The sooner we give it back to Mexico, the better...

All of us across the U.S. who actually pay taxes are actually footing the bill for this fiasco...

[Bonemaker]

Bring back Chinese coolies...they'd get it done in a year.

[Navy Patriot]

It can’t be completed as designed.

Correct.

It could be built and it could operate at the promised speed, but NOT as designed.

[jroehl]

Taking a train from London to Paris, through a 30 mile tunnel under the ocean, was a thrill, 10 years ago.

[MeganC]

California High Speed Rail is going to end up as the world’s most expensive bike trail.

[Leep]

My guess is they believe they believe the lower middle income people..who can’t afford EV..all part of the plan ..onto mass transit.. including trains.
The left doesn’t care if the numbers don’t add up..they can’t be bothered with reality.

[dfwgator]

Taking a train from London to Paris, through a 30 mile tunnel under the ocean, was a thrill, 10 years ago.

On that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by '76 we'll be a-okay

[jroehl]

Take all the people that made 10+ million dollars from this project and publicly execute them.

[Bernard]

This is where an old-time politician like Richard J. Daley was at his best. A little in this pocket, a little in that pocket, but the garbage got picked up, the snow was plowed, and burned-out street lights were replaced.

Probably how Chicago got the name "The City That Works".

These guys could learn a lot from the old-timers.

[dfwgator]

This is where an old-time politician like Richard J. Daley was at his best.

And hippies got a nice "Hickory Shampoo".

[Navy Patriot]

Thanks, the idea of high speed rail is valid and possible, but the Bullet Train was co opted by opportunists to acquire valuable property and that property’s water rights, by eminent domain and transfer most of it to insiders on the cheap. The rail line it’s self uses very little property but cuts across parcels making them extremely difficult to farm or ranch.

[SaveFerris]

Yes

[Wonder Warthog]

"But the US was doing this in the 1930’s."

Actually, the 1830's... 1827-the Baltimore & Ohio: The first railroad in North America — the Baltimore & Ohio — is chartered by Baltimore merchants.

[dfwgator]

[Billthedrill]

Looks like the crowds of passengers wanting to escape the squalor and ruin of LA for the squalor and ruin of San Francisco are going to have to wait.

[citizen]

They could have just chartered planes for less.

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Heck, they could have started up a dedicated, cut-rate commuter airline for less and be operating at break-even by now.

[Yardstick]

lol — that sounds about right

[Chode]

just think how many welfare perks that takes away from all the illegals