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Posted on 02/04/2026 4:34:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Do you remember that high-speed rail project in California that was supposed to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco and be completed in 2020? Well, it's finally ready to begin laying track on a much shorter section on a ludicrously bigger budget.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) proudly announced that the high-speed rail has entered the track-laying phase. In his words, “We are now in the process of starting to lay track.” (Emphasis added). This is not for the full Los Angeles-San Francisco line that was supposed to be done six years ago, but for a 119-mile stretch from Madera County to Shafter. The current project goal is a line from Merced to Bakersfield, with a target completion date between 2030 and 2033. That would represent 35% of the promised project, 10 years later, and at least $44 billion (and counting) over the promised budget.
While Newsom celebrates this “progress,” California Democrats are seeking to keep more information about the project from reaching the public. Proposed legislation by California Democrats would allow the project's inspector general to hide “personal papers and correspondence of any person providing assistance to the Inspector General when that person has requested in writing that their papers and correspondence be kept private and confidential.”
Newsom has said he knows nothing about this secretive request, but local media have reported that the governor's administration has “filed nearly identical legislation.” This follows a series of attempts by California Democrats to water down transparency on the project.
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What’s there to hide?
There is nothing there.
Gee....I wonder how much of the budget gets diverted to NGOs?
“”The current project goal is a line from Merced to Bakersfield””
In the middle of the state? 156 miles between the two and nothing FROM San Francisco down? They have a long way to go - long row to hoe!!!
Why would the feds give them money? None of my business. Don’t live there.
Same thing with the Big Dig in Boston. Over time and budget.
A Dem couldn’t put together a Lego set without lying about how fast and cheap they could do it.
The LA-SanFran line was to make it quick for business and political folks to get to the State Capital and back in a day.
But now, Shafter, Bakersfield, Merced?
Hi speed to there will help a lot.
PS, there are lots of oil wells near Bakersfield. EEK! I thought that area was supposed to be vacated and leveled.
There are allegations of huge fraud!
So they better hide it from inspections.
Looks like the people who try to hide that stuff have hands in cookie jar!
The real situation is it was never intended to be anything but a pretext for graft.
Straight up theft
“””Never mind the arguments for or against high speed rail.
The real situation is it was never intended to be anything but a pretext for graft. “”””””
Same as the light rail train here in Minneapolistan. Walz has dumped billions into it. Not many PAID riders. Plenty of freeloaders. We call it the Somali Trolley.
Stop feeding the notion that the public Treasury and congress have any other intention.
After all that efforts, there are only 22 miles substantially completed! (No tracks yest!)
But they are pretty much done with environmental impact studies!
Two places no one wants to go.
So they've been working on this for 30 years.
Most likely ALL OF IT.
Hey, the good news is that the bustling Merced-Bakersfield corridor will have a train to help relieve the congestion…
/s
At least Dianne Feinstein got richer, thanks to her husband’s construction company scoring a billion dollar contract. I’ll bet a lot more dems, and a few republicans are a lot wealthier now too. Most probably did a better job of covering their tracks, though someone has the receipts tucked away for a time they need to call in a favor.
The Big Dig was well managed and budgeted compared to this fiasco.
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