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Duffy moves to defund California high-speed rail after blistering federal review
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| June 4, 2025
| Michael Dorgan
Posted on 06/04/2025 2:51:53 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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One less Newscum Scam!!
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
06/04/2025 2:55:34 PM PDT
by
avital2
To: Navy Patriot
“Boondoggle” is a nice way to describe a nice big petty cash fund for CA Dem politicians and their donors. No way should that ever have gotten Federal money.
To: Navy Patriot
Over 150 years ago, the 1911 mile long transcontinental railroad was surveyed, laid out, and built in 6 years using hand tools and muscle.
Nonetheless, California High Speed Rail is Fabulous!
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:01:36 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: Navy Patriot
To: Navy Patriot
At The Proposal stage of the high-speed rail project, 15 minutes of thought would have revealed the near impossibility of completing such a project, not to mention the quintupling of cost that was certain to occur. I have to suppose that is a feature, not a bug.
To: Navy Patriot
Can it and demand a refund from the State!!!!!! Not one more friggin’ penny!!!
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:07:50 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Navy Patriot
Duffy, raised in My tiny hometown in Wisconsin (less than 1,500 residents) is doing the right thing.
He has “skin in the game” (eight children).
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:08:09 PM PDT
by
marktwain
To: Navy Patriot
LOL...$9B +$7B = $16B which is about 10% of what the damn thing will ultimately cost. And there will be near zero ridership.
There are an average of 250 flights every single day between the San Francisco Bay Area and the greater Los Angeles area. It varies from 200 to 300 daily flights. Time in the air is under one hour; 90 minutes gate-to-gate.
The official train trip time is 2 hours 40 minutes which is preposterous. In reality, it will be 3h 30m to 4 h.
Who the hell needs a train?
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:13:43 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: Navy Patriot
“it could soon be time for these funds to flow to other projects”
Like having the government build EV chargers? Or the government bringing internet to rural areas? Both are colossal flops, just like CA HSR.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:15:29 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; All
Who the hell needs a train?
I suspect there are thousands of connected Californians (and others) who are getting rich off this boondoggle.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is a serious question why other countries can do civil engineering projects while ours cannot.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:17:44 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
To: Navy Patriot
a huge scandal from the beginning
it is amazing how long it has taken to pull the cord on this one
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:18:35 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: marktwain
The purpose of "The Bullet Train" was to remove Legacy American Family Farmers Ownership of some of the most valuable Farm Land in America, and deliver it Free, to Globalist control by using American Taxpayer Funds.
It worked perfectly.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:19:27 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
The entire San Francisco - San Jose line entered service in 1864. They built four tunnels, 75 bridges, 37 switches, 33 culverts, seven water tanks, and two turntables using all manual and animal power. It cost $170 million in 2025 dollars.
Today, to retrofit just ONE underpass for those same tracks is estimated at $600 million to $700 million in Burlingame, CA. That’s FOUR times what it cost to build the entire system in 1864.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:21:19 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
...15 minutes of thought...Fifteen minutes of Critical Thought, not allowed in Calipornia.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:23:21 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:24:35 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:41:07 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: Navy Patriot
The Big Dig’s record is safe.
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:43:42 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
("Death Smiles At Everyone - Marines Smile Back" - 250 years of smiling - 11/10/2025)
To: mikey_hates_everything
THE UGLY HIDDEN PRICE OF ALL OF THIS IS THE VALUE OF “EASEMENTS THAT WERE DEMANDED FOR THE RAIL == ACRES & ACRES OF VALUABLE CENTRAL CALIF FARMLAND.
NOW DORMANT, HURTING LONG TIME FARMERS.....
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posted on
06/04/2025 3:45:07 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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