Posted on 05/01/2025 7:30:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As California’s High-Speed Rail Authority awaits word from the Trump administration over its future support for the train, leaders who oversee the project sounded the alarm about its financial viability.
“We are obviously in trouble,” she said.
The Department of Transportation initiated a compliance review of the project in February following...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
There is only one correct answer to this boondoggle:
No.
Good article on this today:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-bullet-train-good-lesson-political-deception
“We are obviously in trouble,”
People are getting wealthy off this lady, just looks like you are one of them.
They should crap in one hand...
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Duffy predicted this 6 weeks ago in CA and got booed and had tomatoes thrown at him.
CA is the cereal state.
5.56mm
It was widely discussed at the time this huge boondoggle was proposed how senator Feinstein and Pelousi stood to profit from it.
These matters warrant investigation imho.
The billions and billions have already been distributed to politicians and their friends’ bank accounts far and wide.
Time to rob the American taxpayers again...
For historical context the Central Pacific and Union Pacific built the transcontinental railroad in six years covering a bit more than 1900 miles. Trains were running and generating revenue the day after the golden spikes were driven at Promontory Point.
It’s been 10 years since construction of the first 120-mile section of California’s high-speed has begun with zero miles of track laid.
For comparison, the first transcontinental railroad, connecting Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, took about six years to build, from 1863 to 1869. Construction began in 1863, with the Central Pacific Railroad starting from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha. The two lines met at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, completing the 1,912-mile route. Delays from terrain, weather, labor shortages, and funding issues extended the timeline, but the project was a massive engineering feat for its time.
That was accomplished with zero computers, no aerial survey mapping, no gasoline or diesel powered equipment, all hand drafting, and no dynamite.
The Central Pacific, starting from Sacramento, built 15 tunnels to cross the Sierra Nevada, as the rugged terrain necessitated extensive tunneling to maintain a workable grade. These 15 tunnels, concentrated between Cisco and Truckee, California, were a major engineering challenge, with the longest being the Summit Tunnel (Tunnel No. 6) at 1,659 feet. The tunnels were primarily hand-chiseled by Chinese laborers using black powder and nitroglycerin, a process that was slow and dangerous, averaging about one foot of progress per day.
What is happening today on Cal HS Rail is just pitiful. It is perfectly emblematic of Democrat single-party governance, corruption, unions, and gross incompetence.
Sounds to me like they are spending money that they do not have.
California’s high-speed rail grifters sound the alarm...
FEINSTEIN’S HUBBY GOT THE CONTRACT..RICHARD BLUM
NOW—THEY NEED ANOTHER 20 YEARS????
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
From what I understand, there hasn’t been any track put down even to this day.
That’s what the article says.
POOR grifting crooks in California. Can’t get everyone else to pay for yountrillion dollar boondoggle. I would love to see the forcensoc accounting with all the money wasted on that project.
POOR grifting crooks in California. Can’t get everyone else to pay for yountrillion dollar boondoggle. I would love to see the forcensoc accounting with all the money wasted on that project.
No. It is worse than that.
Even BEFORE the Transcontinental Railroad was complete, EACH SIDE (Union Pacific and Central Pacific) was carrying so much paying freight and paying passengers to the towns further back down the tracks from back east and San Francisco) that the Operations Divisions of each railroad got in screaming fights with the construction companies and schedulers about who got priority!
Paying freight to a town in the middle that was already connected? Or rails and ties and nails and lumber to build the new railroad out a little bit further to the next town waiting to get connected?
In Pelosi’s and Feinstein’s California, they have spent billions buying land from each other, and grading right-of-way but no bridges, but have not connected ANY CITIES yet with rails.
We’re on the road to nowhere.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.