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California High-Speed Rail Reaches 'Momentous Milestone'
Newsweek ^ | Apr 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM EDT | Theo Burman

Posted on 04/23/2025 3:05:33 PM PDT by cuz1961

... The City of Millbrae and the California High-Speed Rail Authority reached an agreement on Tuesday, resolving a legal dispute that could have blocked the project from building train stations in the area...

..In a statement following the decision, Anders Fung, the Mayor of Millbrae, said: "This is a momentous milestone for Millbrae. This historic settlement represents our commitment to realizing our true potential – where high quality public transit integrates with housing and economic development to energize the future of a thriving city.

"Millbrae is committed ...

...The Millbrae stops are critical to the first phase of the rail project, as the trains will need to pass through the area in order to reach San Francisco....

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; grift
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1 posted on 04/23/2025 3:05:33 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

should be ready to take passengers by 2042


2 posted on 04/23/2025 3:10:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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“should be ready to take passengers by 2042”

After billions upon billions of dollars being spent on the project.


3 posted on 04/23/2025 3:12:52 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: cuz1961

What? The costs top a trillion dollars now?


4 posted on 04/23/2025 3:14:39 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cuz1961

Remind me:
How much has already been spent?
How much is estimated for completion?
And what was the estimate when approved by the legislators?


5 posted on 04/23/2025 3:18:09 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: cuz1961

Would probably be more economically feasible to just run buses . The high speed rail will never be finished, but if it is ever finished, it will lose money.


6 posted on 04/23/2025 3:18:17 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: cuz1961

There will never be such a thing

Anyway who would ride it and for what reason?

All the Californians who have productive lives are moving to Texas to ruin that state


7 posted on 04/23/2025 3:19:56 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: cuz1961

The first mile of track is complete?


8 posted on 04/23/2025 3:21:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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It’s all a money scam. You don’t start mmajor projects without doing the paperwork in advance. All of the lawsuits are by design to grift more money to Dems as payoffs.

No federal money. The Big Dig was another scam but got done.

Remember California’s earthquake proof freeways? One earthquake near Oakland proved that was a lie.


9 posted on 04/23/2025 3:24:18 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: cuz1961

The only intelligent milestone is to kill the damn thing.


10 posted on 04/23/2025 3:24:20 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
it looks like the project MAY have come to an agreement with the 1st dem grifter town looking to profit as much as possible off allowing it
to go through their turf.

the 1st of many.

probably be 100 trillion spent before its completed.

11 posted on 04/23/2025 3:24:51 PM PDT by cuz1961
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“Anyway who would ride it and for what reason?”

The love affair Californians have with their cars would make this train defunct before it starts. They’re not giving up their cars.


12 posted on 04/23/2025 3:26:49 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: stanne

Anyway who would ride it and for what reason?

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to get to a different airport,,, to fly to texas to ruin that state next !!!

;-)


13 posted on 04/23/2025 3:26:51 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Fraud and boondoggle so massive that it is too big to fail.


14 posted on 04/23/2025 3:27:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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...probably be 100 trillion spent before its completed.

"The journey is the reward." --Steve Jobs

The "journey" and the "reward" being $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

15 posted on 04/23/2025 3:29:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bloated progressive-woke American government is at “peak-looting” stage.


16 posted on 04/23/2025 3:32:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: cuz1961

Momentous occasion, have they laid any rail yet?


17 posted on 04/23/2025 3:33:19 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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18 posted on 04/23/2025 3:33:41 PM PDT by Rio
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To: cuz1961

Will those in homeless camps up and down the line be putting shopping carts and boulders on the tracks?


19 posted on 04/23/2025 3:39:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The first mile of track is complete?


I was going to post the same thing, except instead of mile, I was going to use foot.


20 posted on 04/23/2025 3:43:37 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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