Posted on 07/19/2025 1:20:39 PM PDT by DFG
Every resident of CA should be suing the state for fraud.
China already has the future in high speed trains.
Newsom needs to visit China one of these days and take a ride in the super fast Chinese high speed trains.
Laying down tracks, heavy iron hammer in hands, building he high shining steel rails across the land.
Recent cover by Van Morrison of the Leadbelly classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9r8kqAyXw8
The transcontinental railroad only took six years.
America’s first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the “Pacific Railroad” and later as the “Overland Route”) was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
There needs to be an investigation into where all the money went those 17 years. It only took six years to build the Transcontinental Railroad along 1,776 miles. And after 17 years, not one rail has been laid in what was to be a 776 miles rail line. Plenty of pockets got filled with cash these 17 years.
I think LA metro to SF metro travel might be done by electric STOL airplanes in the future.
Duffy moves to defund California high-speed rail after blistering federal review
Indonesia built a 142 kilometer high speed rail system in 8 years. Construction started in 2015. Operations began in 2023. Currently runs 62 daily trains with 37,000 passengers per day at 220 MPH.
https://www.newsweek.com/indonesia-first-bullet-train-high-speed-rail-2091570
California high speed rail isn’t really supposed to be built, but a little bit might eventually get built just to keep the graft coming.
Ca HSR is in need of about a 7 billion dollar infusion to keep building viaducts and grade crossings, which they must find by the end of summer more or less. They may never get to next year, when, they say, track laying will begin. This is the lethal error in the whole fiasco—no plan on how to find the 100 billion needed to complete the scheme. Maybe they just assumed federal dollars on a massive scale, maybe they just kicked the can down the road and said We’ll figure something out somehow. It’s not clear. But Trump sees through it all and he is right, not to spend good money after bad.
“Trump wants to hand China the future,”
Yeah. Because all those people traveling from Bakersfield to Merced are going to take on China’s industrial might.
Cars take you to your final destination. Trains take you to a train station. Which is better??
What button does the California Secretary of Transpotation push to lay track? Do they have an app for that?
After 17 years LOL, LOL to bad they didn’t lay it just a little quicker BECAUSE now they have NO MORE federal taxpayer money!! I would LOVE an audit of the contractors who are NewSCUM’s buddies!!!
Transcontinental railroad was built in six years, putting down 1,776 miles of track
Blasting through mountains, with black powder.
In other words, elections soon.
Pro tip, put the ties down first.
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