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California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Yahoo! ^ | Tue, March 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM CDT | KCRA

Posted on 03/14/2024 10:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger

California's mega high-speed rail project between San Francisco to Los Angeles faces major funding hurdles

VIDEO AT LINK.....................

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; california; highspeedrail; williebrown
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In other news, UCLA Scientists create Black Hole.....................
1 posted on 03/14/2024 10:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The big dig 2.0.


2 posted on 03/14/2024 10:44:36 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Red Badger

What a Fu***** Joke. Anyone want to bet that the $100 Million is not enough? They will be back, guarantee it!


3 posted on 03/14/2024 10:46:08 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Red Badger

Bro, its just another hundred billion. Come on Bro, that’s like couch change!


4 posted on 03/14/2024 10:46:26 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Red Badger
Wow another black hole


5 posted on 03/14/2024 10:46:36 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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$69 million per mile for France’s LGV Sud-Est seems like a bargain now.


6 posted on 03/14/2024 10:47:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Red Badger

Absolutely insane. This is nothing but money laundering for the unions. We don’t need this especially not at this cost. Stupid Californians voted for this boondoggle because they believed that it would come in at $8B, which is already too much.


7 posted on 03/14/2024 10:47:26 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Red Badger

The politicians and bureaucrats of California are not going to feed themselves you know! Bend over and drop your pants America, California wants to play with trains!


8 posted on 03/14/2024 10:48:28 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Red Badger

Is that for the ‘environmental’ study?.. /s


9 posted on 03/14/2024 10:49:03 AM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: Red Badger

How many miles of track hasvebeen laid so far?

(Honest question: I really don’t know; but I do fear the answer may be ‘none,” or very little.)


10 posted on 03/14/2024 10:49:58 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: NohSpinZone

I spent hours one night a month ago looking at Google Street View and Google Earth. Nothing is built — maybe 0.5 %

There is a one-mile-ish segment of raised structure in I think Fresno and THAT IS IT.

Biggest boondoggle on our planet.


11 posted on 03/14/2024 10:50:24 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: Lockbox

Not million, BILLION!.................


12 posted on 03/14/2024 10:50:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

How many miles of track have been laid so far?

(Honest question: I really don’t know; but I do fear the answer may be ‘none,” or very little.)

I am a railfan; and I envy what Europe has apparently done with passenger trains to date — recognizing the level of Gov subsidy some enjoy...


13 posted on 03/14/2024 10:52:49 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Red Badger

How many politician’s companies or friend/family companies are involved ?


14 posted on 03/14/2024 10:53:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger; Willie Green

Williegreen memorial ping


15 posted on 03/14/2024 10:54:20 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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To: William of Barsoom

How many miles of track have been laid so far?........Project status as of February 2024. Source: Wiki

16 posted on 03/14/2024 10:54:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

a huge profit boondoggle for a certain political family
and
a terrible ripoff joke on the taxpayers


17 posted on 03/14/2024 10:55:11 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Lockbox

Billion, not million….and still not enough.


18 posted on 03/14/2024 10:55:12 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: Red Badger

As we speak, they’re in process of building a “high-speed” train, some of which is being constructed down the center of I-15, which is going to go from Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga! The distance between Rancho Cucamonga to Los Angeles is around 40-50 miles depending on where your destination is in L.A.

So if you’re heading to L.A., when you get to Rancho Cucamonga, I suppose you’ll have to rent a car, hire an Uber driver, or take a bus to get to L.A.


19 posted on 03/14/2024 10:55:26 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Red Badger

When finished, this useless bullet train will carry passengers from one dystopian, uninhabitable sh*thole to the other one.

That assumes the passengers are not assaulted, robbed, rape or murdered enroute.


20 posted on 03/14/2024 10:57:47 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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