Posted on 09/23/2019 6:24:21 AM PDT by cutty
Blended route for the way to San Joseand beyond.
Californias ongoing bullet train project is late, over-budget, and politically assailed everywhere from Sacramento to the White House, but the nearly $80 billion venture still (pardon the term) chugs along, as the High Speed Rail Authority board voted Tuesday for routes that will eventually connect trains to the Bay Area.
Out of four route proposals, board members favored a Merced-to-San Jose connection designated Alternative Four, one that blended configuration between San Jose and Gilroy in the existing Caltrain and Union Pacific Railroad corridors before continuing to a dedicated high-speed rail alignment through Pacheco Pass through a tunnel.
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blended means that future bullet trains will use a combination of existing rail infrastructure from regional transit agencies along with newly built trackways laid down specifically for high-speed rail,
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The routes favored at Tuesdays vote may change in the future. Actual construction remains years away
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In May, a project update report found that the likely final cost now sat at $79.1 billion, almost double the $40 billion voters approved in 2008, with the route from Bakersfield to Merced now $1.8 billion pricier than previously calculated.
California is presently entrenched in litigation with the federal government over attempts to cancel nearly $1 billion in grants,
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Correct.
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always The Revolution.
Or The Bureaucracy, in this case.
Ha! Someone made $$ on it. At Taxpayers expense
Its all about stealing money off the taxpayers
That kind of stuff fascinates me.
Building something and leaving it alone with no records or anything.
“...The bridge in the photo could be tarped in for deluxe living quarters for illegals...”
My daughter's good friend lives in San Fran. She sat next to a needle on the BART a few weeks ago.
Calling them “Bullet” Trains is not acceptable.
You have to pass a Background Check to buy Ammunition (Bullets) in CA.
I’m still waiting for the Las Vegas Monorail to go all the way to the Airport.
So it's a typical liberal scam that the press ignores the details on? Guess it's not a total win for liberals until they find a way to blame Trump.
LOL
Probably the best solution for the state anyway. Side benefit...it brings us closer to Obama's 57 states.
Friends that dont know anything about California the funny thing is we already have the beautiful Amtrak streamliner which goes along the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles and San Diego and its one of the more beautiful train rides in the United States and has been there forever 100 years but obviously its not a bullet train thats silly now of course this train line is never ever going to get billed all it is is a giant boondoggle for all the corrupt unions and all the San Francisco politicians keep paying your favorite architects and planners and all those kind of people if you didnt know California has over 100,000 yes 100,000 in commissions where people get paid $100,000 a year to show up to meetings twice a year
They don't use spikes anymore, they use concrete ties with spring clips to hold the rails in place.
On the plus side...at least there is nothing to clean-up.
They already have a marketing campaign in mind: “Come see the poop at 200MPH!”
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