Posted on 12/09/2023 7:50:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Department of Transportation announced more than $6 billion in grant funding for high-speed rail projects this week. The money comes amid ongoing support for a technology that has also encountered concerns about its costs.
Brightline West, an affiliate of Florida’s Brightline intercity rail service, was awarded $3 billion in federal funds for its proposed line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, which would zoom passengers between the cities in two hours.
The California High-Speed-Rail Authority was awarded $3.1 billion to continue work on its system, which will ultimately connect Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours.
The grant money announced this week will primarily fund construction of that system in the Central Valley, according to a press release from the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
That portion of the project will connect Merced, Fresno and Bakersfield sometime between 2030-33. Once that’s complete, the project will extend into the Bay Area and eventually Los Angeles.
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10% for The Big Guy, 5% for Gavin, and 5% for the DNC.
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Plus 70% for agency administrative overhead and compliance studies.
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How could you guys forget the Union Payoffs? That’s at least 20%.
We’re up to 110% which sounds about right for a government project. Actually, maybe that’s way too low.
Another study in futility. If passenger service were a viable option, Norfolk & Southern, CSX, and Union Pacific would all be doing it. It’s a major loser, so nobody wants to do it. Except the government, which loves to shove people into boxy shaped cars and shuttle them around like cattle until death do us part.
Current Calif budget deficit is admitted to being $68 BILLION.
THAT is what they are admitting to————
By the way, note that a...proposed line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, which would zoom passengers between the cities in two hours.
You know, if I'm Las Vegas resident and taxpayer there is absolutely no way I want this - at all. All this is going to do is import LA's considerable underclass, migrants, homeless, crime - lots of crime - to Las Vegas.
COMPANY===RICHARD BLUM-—FEINSTEIN’S HUBBY
It will all go to consultants and studies, just like before.
Great, now we’ll have to listen, again and again, to Biden tell his story about the Amtrak conductor who supposedly congratulated him for traveling 2 million miles on the rail service.
If people are in a hurry they’ll buy a plane ticket. This isn’t Japan and high speed rail doesn’t make sense in the US... But comfortable rail would sell well. Spend a few more hours traveling but have the travel time part of the adventure. Comfortable seats, nice dining, and a place to play cards and rest and work. That would make more sense.
Brightline rail. Zooming through downtown senior citizen havens like Stuart FL sixteen round trips per day. At one incredibly busy five-point intersection with the railroad crossing, warning signs state “trains may exceed 80 mph.”
You gotta be connected (dialed in with the Biden régime) to be selected, or else you will be rejected. This applies even more to the Biden régime’s Greenie bullshit projects such as solar, wind, and building new factories to make EV batteries. The EV battery factories get Green gobs of Federale billions tossed their way. Such as the one Ford is building in Michigan.
___________________Ford is investing $3.5 billion to build an LFP battery plant in Marshall, Michigan; this wholly owned subsidiary is part of Ford’s $50 billion+ global push to lead the EV revolution. Initial production slated for 2026 with 2,500 employees to start__________________
My favorite Federale funded, Greedy Greenie Garbage projects are CO2 sequestration, the connected (donors) will be building pipelines to transport CO2 from industries, and I believe corn to ethanol plants, to sites that can handle CO2 being pumped deep underground. A few connected companies have received millions to build these sequestration demonstration projects.
College educated CO2 paranoia runs deep. The ancient Egyptians blew their resources on building pyramids/burial tombs for their degenerate kings, who married their sisters. We are no better, blowing trillions, catering to the high anxiety of the CO2 haters.
You gotta comply (donate millions) to DemocRats or you will be denied.
And, in Biden’s mind, a down payment to Gavin Newsome, his successor, for pardons and other favors to come.
Brightline West will go. The CA high speed rail is indeed a boondoggle, truly a train to nowhere.
The reason Brightline will go is that the majority of the track will be built in the ROW of I-15, apparently your favorite way to Vegas. From Victorville west it will continue along I-15 down Cajon Pass to Rancho Cucamonga where passengers will transfer to Metrolink for downtown LA.
BTW, Brightline east in Florida is now in operation from Orlando Airport to Miami with over a dozen daily roundtrip departures. The fenced stretch from Orlando to existing trackage of the FEC RR is 110 mph along an interstate or a Florida highway. As there are highway crossings south from there to Miami, speeds are 70 mph.
See my #32 below. That’s the way Brightline west will be built.
Is that how they will bail out the sanctuary location?
6 billion? Dang with all the coverup money going to the uke we coulda ended homelessness, help the veterans, cured cancer, and...
THANKFULLY it looks like the Texas contraption (Dallas/Houston) is dead.
As to the others, California speaks for itself, but I do think that LA to Las Vegas can work if done correctly, having driven that route many times...it’s very, very, busy.
Of course the operative word is ‘correctly’. If they make riders take local transit to the terminal, then it’s DOA.
Yep voter shopping
I think you mean willie green
Yep, get up at 6AM, take the LA-SF rail (or wherever it is supposed to go) and be there by 9AM, just in time to step in some homeless morning sh!t on the sidewalk before that important meeting.
I’ve been there. Fortunately there were no trains going through at the time.
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