Posted on 04/19/2023 11:03:22 AM PDT by CFW
It sounded too good to be true, and it was. Travel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles in two hours via high-speed rail. California voters in 2008 approved Proposition 1A, authorizing $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds to build this so-called “bullet train.” They were told not only that the total cost would only be $33 billion but also that the entire 500-mile system would be running by 2030.
Fat chance.
In March of this year, the California High-Speed Rail Authority released its latest progress report. The project is now projected to cost $127 billion, and there is no longer a projected completion date. The initial stretch of track, a 171-mile segment across the sparsely populated, pancake-flat San Joaquin Valley, is projected to be done by 2030 at a cost of $35 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
What an easy way to pay-off friends (or enemies) and stick the bill to the tax-payers.
The plan was always to bankrupt Calif — then suck the fly-over taxpayers to pay the rest thru biden fed $$$.
If they actually wanted a bullet train system to be built, they should have hired the Japanese, who keep adding long segments built in a few years rather than a few decades.
But actually having a bullet train system was never the intention. In Japan, the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the nation. In CaliMarxia, the issue is always the revolution.
Look for the union label.
Won’t Elon Musk have his network of teleporters in place by then?
Eventually this project, like the bridge over the river Kwai will be completed. Suspect the Democrats in California will celebrate. Suspect the Governor, most of the Legislature, big donors, Hollywood celebrities and of course pardoned felons will board the first train in San Francisco and ride it down to LA. It will be quite a sight.
And NO ONE seems to talk about it - except here on FR
Zero political responsibility. Its fascinating
There's not a snowball's chance in hell it is completed. Certainly not in its present form or administration
Reality (in the form of bankruptcy or insolvency) will intrude.
Man-size pneumatic tubes, LA to The Bay.
Voooomp!
‘BULLET”?! Isn’t someone “triggered” by that word?
CA HSR will end up the world’s most expensive bike trail.
“Hollywood celebrities and of course pardoned felons will board the first train in San Francisco and ride it down to LA”
And I predict it will be their last unless air travel is banned.
Diane Feinstein’s HUBBY-—Richard Blum has the ‘contract’ for that train.
$127 Billion!!!
Article outlines a lot of useful infrastructure that has been shelved by the lefties, including things like fixing our damn freeways, bridges, water storage...things the population actually needs.
Yet my neighbors will vote for the same marxists again and again.
Agreed. For the reasons you state, it is impossible that this will ever be built. To your list I would add that the political will of the gullible electorate ran out a long time ago on this project, and the environmental and eminent domain lawsuits in the urban areas would take years and years and billions in attorneys fees
Oh , I thought the train was to bring people to the extermination centers very fast
Ok, 35% of the total length - in the easiest terrain - will be built for the initial projected cost of the entire system in the initially projected time frame.
That there is some solid project execution.
“California voters”
AKA: morons
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