Some bold entrepreneur should start a new discount airline. He could call it "Pacific Southwest Airlines" or "PSA." He should hire some hot stews and dress them in VaVaVoom short hot pants outfits. The businessmen will Love it!
Posted on 03/09/2018 3:39:50 PM PST by C19fan
The projected cost of California's bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033, according to a business plan released Friday.
The two-year plan presented by the California High-Speed Rail Authority is the first under new chief executive Brian Kelly, who has promised more transparency about the project's challenges after years of cost increases and delays.
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Enrich many insiders.
But I Have to Get to Work!
Price does not include on-board muggings and feces cleaning costs.
Double then triple etc the cost as they are still building on the easy flat portion and have yet to even get close to drilling a tunnel thru the mountains.
By my estimate, there are about 5 million people who travel from the LA basin to the SF Bay Area, every year.
If one figures that the average one-way price of this trip is $77, then the money being spent on this ‘high speed rail’ can finance ONE BILLION TRIPS, or 200 years worth of travel between the two regions...and that is only the cost to get the system built.
You can start seeing the HORRIFIC waste of money this system is when you compare it to alternatives...and I didn’t even have to bother with Megabus, a company that averages less than half the cost of flying.
https://www.flights.com/flights/los-angeles-lax-to-san-francisco-sfo/
“An interesting bit of trivia: Did you know that 1,451,320 seats were available on flights from LAX to SFO in 2009? Sitting in those seats, about 1,134,098 passengers flew on regular flights from LAX to SFO.”
Some bold entrepreneur should start a new discount airline. He could call it "Pacific Southwest Airlines" or "PSA." He should hire some hot stews and dress them in VaVaVoom short hot pants outfits. The businessmen will Love it!
In January, 2010, Obama breezed into Florida to promise then-GOP Gov. Charlie Crist (now Dem US Rep. from St.Petersburg) $1.25 billion to build 84 miles of track from Tampa to Orlando, which would allow trains to travel at up to 168 m.p.h., the first leg of a corridor that is eventually expected to go to Miami. At that time, the estimate for California’s COMPLETE L.A. to S.F. line was $45B for 220mph connector to which Obama promised a downpayment of $2.25B
The difference 8 years later? Crist’s GOP successor, Rick Scott put a stop to the entire project, saying it was the equivalent of a taxpayer money hole with no end of costs. He and the stoppage survived numerous political and legal challenges. California, on the other hand remains enthusiastic and the costs have gone to $77B and many years longer to completion.
Shouldn’t it start in Tijuana?
You could start your own airline for less.
They shouldn't get another dime of Federal money unless and until they obey all immigration laws and all California cities shed the sanctuary city BS plus.
Even then, this particular project is nothing but a scam to line the pockets of loyal, wealthy, democrat fascists. They need a high speed rail link when they can't even afford to maintain the highways they already have?
Come on, keeping high speed rail fit for high speeds isn't cheap and you have to stay on top of it, not just get around to it when the State Legislature decides it can put a little money in the account used for such mundane tasks.
High will go back on old tracks and low speed. What a waste of money.
Or more specifically, a monument to Democrat labor union vote buying.
Why enslave illegals when you can tax your into oblivion?
my thoughts exactly Vaquero! This is the Big Dig on Drugs and Triple Teddy kennedy alcoholic delusions.
Or even teleportation. Beam me up Scotty!
Sanctuary city money plain and simple
Indeed.
Bidding for the Hoover Dam opened on Jan 10, 1931. FDR dedicated the opening of it on Sept. 30, 1935.
The cost was $49 million, which if you believe government inflation statistics, is about $750 million in today’s money.
Imagine any similar project in the USA getting built in 4+ years for less than $1 billion???!!!
Hope they’re not counting on federal money. Seems to me the rest of America might have a problem with funding an in state project for a sanctuary state threatening to succeed.
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