Still not a foot of track close to being laid.
Hood criminal being arrested after shooting passengers during a holdup on the train:
“What’s up with that? They said this was a bullet train.”
Just wait until a bullet train doing 250 mph gets caught in a magnitude 6 or greater earthquake.
After stories of 500 dead and the video of crumpled, burning cars, I predict future ridership will drop by 95% (from whatever dismally low number it will be to begin with).
But they’ll still fund the black-hole because they can’t admit failure after the billions they already wasted.
I take the Brightline train from West Palm Beach to Orlando all the time and love it. I think Brightline is largely private which means they can’t embezzle public funds.
The Big Dig on steroids.
It was claimed to be ‘shovel ready’ to receive federal $’s.
It hadn’t even been planned or designed at the time.
How many billion have been spent and how many billion are they over budget?
Illegal Alien Transportation System
This is like connecting the toilet vents on my two larger bathrooms.
That's how it was marketed but no track has been laid yet and it's way, way, way, way past the predicted cost. Oh, and it's nowhere near LA or the Bay Area. It's in the Central Valley, like Bakersfield, Merced, Fresno. IOW, where nobody cares to go.
What's going to happen when thieves start stealing the rail for scrap metal or the vagrant homeless set up camp on the train cars?
California has very little effective law enforcement that matters these days so no one will stop it, and if it becomes a rolling homeless camp no one will ride it.
Gee… the government boondoggle got economic approval from the government agency both staffed by the same political party.
As if that was ever in doubt.
Pete Buttplug says he expects this thing to be completed by 2050. And he thinks he’s helping to make the case for this boondoggle.
More laundering and nothing will be completed.
First, passengers have to get to downtown. Second, they need to get from downtown to wherever they want to go. Both LA and SF have some rail lines that connect to the termination points but they aren’t fast or always close enough and you still need to get to one of those stations. Some people will have to go south before they can go north and vice versa. Third, the trains will be slow until they get outside populated areas- the “high speed” will only be through unpopulated areas. So depending on your start and end point and getting to the station on time I’d suggest it could still be a 5-6 hour trip, the same as a drive in a car.
It’s probably still going to be cheaper and a lot faster to just take a southwest flight. And with electric cars and self driving cars likely to be more ubiquitous before this project is completed - it seems like a complete waste of time at this point.
All aboard!!
There are YouTube videos by train enthusiasts about high-speed rail in places like Indonesia and for that matter India. Both very densely populated, with challenging geography and both have managed to get lines running in less time than the California project.
So, it’s been 16 years, billions spent and not a foot of rail laid.” It’s the California Way™”
And, if it were to be built, (again, it will never be completed) then the new problem is that nobody (except for a few purple-haired cat ladies, one time each) wants to take it. I know dozens of Cali progressives, and not one has ever stated that they want, or even will take the "high speed" ha ha "rail".
It will not go as fast as initially stated, (Consider that anyone taking the bullet train will still need to park, clear security, and most likely rent a car at the destination is really taking the slow train) and and the reliability of a fast train on such a long line is, one suspects, likely to be poor.
The cost of construction, operation, and maintenance is so ridiculously high that ticket prices could never compete with the airlines or self-driving.
Deceit.
It's the Dems' middle name.
They are already connected by bullets.
Only took 16 years to get a environmental study done, which I’m sure will get held up in court for another 4-6 years.