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California High-Speed Rail awarded $3B by Biden Administration; largest grant in its history
KTLA ^ | December 5, 2023 | Travis Schlepp

Posted on 12/05/2023 6:42:41 PM PST by artichokegrower

The California High-Speed Rail has received its biggest boost from the federal government yet, being awarded more than $3 billion in grant funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The announcement was made Tuesday and was confirmed by California Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; california; graft; grant; hsr; scam; slushfund; train
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To: MeganC

Train to nowhere is more like it.


21 posted on 12/05/2023 7:13:08 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: artichokegrower

Phase one will take you from Merced to Fresno and back in the twinkling of an eye.

Phase two will work on getting people to want to go to Merced or Fresno.

And isn’t this eating up a lot of valuable farmland?


22 posted on 12/05/2023 7:14:25 PM PST by x
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To: artichokegrower

nancy piglousy of baltimore mob family fame and her nephew gavin bringing the grift home again eh ?

typical.

how bout we wait till the 1 billion gav spent for masks from the ccp show up

( still waiting gav..)

before we trust this crooked family with any more other peoples money .

just sayin


23 posted on 12/05/2023 7:16:39 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: artichokegrower

bttt


24 posted on 12/05/2023 7:19:56 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: artichokegrower

California High Speed Money Sump.


25 posted on 12/05/2023 7:33:15 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: MeganC
$3bn for the world’s most expensive bike trail.

Actually, a good idea. Modify the existing raised rail in the central valley to accomodate bicycle traffic. After all, the high-speed train will never be built, and connections into urban cities like SF and LA will never be built. The existing raised rail after modification to bike trails can be interlinked to light rail in suburbs; that light rail can transport bikes and owners to urban areas.

Oh, also charge a toll on bicycles to use it to cover maintenance. About $150 toll ought to do it.

26 posted on 12/05/2023 7:36:44 PM PST by roadcat
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To: artichokegrower

Prediction: there will be no trains. Ever.


27 posted on 12/05/2023 7:43:13 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: artichokegrower
3B!

Might a political cynic think labor graft, favoritism, quid pro quos, and all just in time for an election?

28 posted on 12/05/2023 7:44:02 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Newbomb Turk

We don’t live in a Republic anymore my FRiend.

We don’t have budgets. We have money being sent to wherever grifters want it to go.

We don’t have elections. Our elections have been hopelessly compromised and courrupted, and they don’t even bother to hide it.

We have Taxation Without Representation. They send our great grandchildren’s tax dollars to Ukraine, and they bathe in the kickbacks returned.

We don’t have rule of law. We have Soviet style show trials and kangaroo courts, with all the corrupted organs of government turned against the citizenry, and people being held as political prisoners.


29 posted on 12/05/2023 7:48:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: artichokegrower

Bribem should have put it toward hs railroad across the Indian Ocean.


30 posted on 12/05/2023 8:14:46 PM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: artichokegrower

With the State of California involved, he might as well have dumped
the money in a big pile and lit it on fire.


31 posted on 12/05/2023 8:19:13 PM PST by indthkr
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To: EasySt

“Bipartisan” is doublespeak for UNIPARTY.


32 posted on 12/05/2023 8:20:11 PM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: artichokegrower

Probably about 2/3 of the workers on that fiasco are MIVs (Migrant Invader Vermin), most of that “6 billion” will be flowing across the Rio Grande into Mexico untaxed and untraceable...


33 posted on 12/05/2023 8:24:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: artichokegrower

The initial project on the ballot, was said to be going to
cost us around $11 billion.

That’s how the Democrats work stuff like that in.


34 posted on 12/05/2023 8:24:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: babble-on

“a couple of miles”

of environmental impact statements printed in hardcover and placed end to end...

;-)


35 posted on 12/05/2023 8:26:46 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: artichokegrower

It will somehow end up going towards “rape a nations. Mark my words.


36 posted on 12/05/2023 8:39:18 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: artichokegrower

How much of that gets kicked back to the Big Guy?


37 posted on 12/05/2023 8:55:19 PM PST by The Duke (Why do I think that the cynicism gene is going to be prevalent in future generations?)
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To: Newbomb Turk

You, see, what you forgot is, the small-government Republicans control the House.


38 posted on 12/05/2023 9:00:14 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: artichokegrower

How does Biden have an unlimited slush fund?

Trump had to fight for years to fund the security wall.


39 posted on 12/05/2023 9:01:40 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: blackdog

The Big Guy’s walking around money wallet was down to its last $100,000,000, I recon.


40 posted on 12/05/2023 9:50:39 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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