Posted on 05/19/2025 9:20:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Can you say rope’n dope?
I knew you could.
not
Almost 40,000 MILLION dollars for a 171 miles of rail that NOBODY will use.
Just think how many thousands of millions are lining leftist pockets.
Imagine how much more it will cost when (if?) they start laying track!
Platinum tracks weren’t enough.
It needs Rhodium tracks!
Climate Change = Weather
Newsom is Joe Biden with better hair.
The frightening thing is, if he runs, he might well become President.
“Imagine how much more it will cost when (if?) they start laying track!”
I haven’t heard that they’ve acquired the right of ways to get from Merced to SF and from Bakersfield to LA. That’s where the costs will truly be insane. They will need to buy some of the most valuable real estate in the world and overpaying to connected cronies is an ancient Democrat scam. I won’t doubt that the likes of Paul Pelosi had an inside track on getting those properties before the purchases.
I forgot to mention overcharging for the construction costs was the scam for the original Pacific railroad builders. The Big four for the Central Pacific and the contractors for the UP. This is another ancient Democrat scam. This mess is going to make the Big Dig look like chump change.
“They will need to buy some of the most valuable real estate in the world ..”
umm... NOPE. The state of California will STEAL whatever property necessary and imprison or disappear whomever necessary.
” The state of California will STEAL whatever property necessary and imprison or disappear whomever necessary.”
You didn’t read my post closely. They might “steal” from the little people, but they won’t from the likes of Paul Pelosi. That’s where the scam is, overpaying connected cronies for the land and the construction costs.
It will never be completed...
The governor and every politician and senior state employee need to be thoroughly investigated by Musk’s team...
Then deport them to SA, or jail all of them in Alcatraz after Trump reopens it...
This project has been in the works for an extremely long time.
It was authorized in 2006.
sure, ok, what you said, revised
The train isn’t high speed yet but the spending of tax money is quite fast.
Biden’s billion dollar project to provide us with EC charging stations all along the route would have allowed people to drive to drop off or pick up family members for this wonderful rail system.
Except there were fewer than a dozen built and there is no rail system running.
$7.5 Billion spent for 7-8 EV stations actually built as of mid-2024.
The land barons have to get paid somehow
It would’be been cheaper, but not necessarily faster, to have just widened the freeways. The I5 which runs from Mexico to Canada is just 2 lanes each way in parts. Same with the highway between these two cities.
Brightline, the company that built private train between several Florida cities, could have completed it by now. They are currently building speed to Las Vegas but they can’t yet build the tracks that get to the major metro areas within 50’miles of the coasts. We’ll see if it makes any money but it’s always been a dream to get a speed train from SoCal to Vegas. San Fran to LA too but that sped train has been hijacked by the state and scaled way back to connecting two minor cities - no offense to the people it’s just not a high demand route for passenger traffic. But Newsom is an idiot who owes party donors a lot of taxpayer funds.
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