Aerial view of the Cedar Viaduct crossing in Fresno which was completed in April 2023.
(California High-Speed Rail Authority)
Posted on 08/28/2025 7:04:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday announced a plan to accelerate the process of laying the first tracks on the state’s beleaguered infrastructure project.
The materials will be used to install the first miles of electrified track along the California High-Speed Rail route, the first high-speed rail track to be laid in the U.S.
The Authority states that the process is being accelerated and will result in track being laid in 2026.
Aerial view of the Cedar Viaduct crossing in Fresno which was completed in April 2023.
(California High-Speed Rail Authority)
U.S. manufacturers will be able to bid in six separate procurement packages as crews begin laying track on the 119-mile segment currently construction. Materials, including rail, ties, fiber optic cables and catenary poles, will be purchased entirely with state funds, with an approved cost of $507 million to be awarded to multiple vendors.
The lack of track having been laid has been a major point of contention for opponents of the project, including current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. After the Department of Transportation announced it was pulling more federal funding for California High-Speed Rail, Duffy criticized the delayed process.
“In twenty years, California has not been able to lay a single track of high-speed rail,” Duffy said earlier this week. “Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg didn’t care about these failures and dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the state’s wish list of related fantasy projects.”
Industry experts and supporters of the California High-Speed Rail have pushed back on the notion, arguing that track-laying realistically happens late in the overall construction process, and is an easier endeavor than building bridges and underpasses, or navigating the clerical and legal challenges [viz. corruption and incompetence] that have plagued the project.
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Not millstone?
A fraud against every California taxpayer and bond holder. Will anyone ever be brought to justice for it? Bastard adulterous Gavin Screwus should be first but do not hold your breath.....
They’re going to double the rate of progress.
A project that is designed to be unprofitable. A project that is designed to run on federal bailout money.
I thought this project had been defunded, put on ice.
Maybe that was another black hole California goal.
The “Smart Train” is what some were calling it.
The old “if we spend enough money on it at the beginning, they’ll never have the balls to stop funding it” trick.
The Authority states that the process is being accelerated and will result in track being laid in 2026.
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Accelerated?
Suuuure.
So...more promises?
Ya no.
Too late.
Give the money back, and hit the road.
They’re going to double the rate of progress.
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arguing that track-laying realistically happens late in the overall construction process, and is an easier endeavor than building bridges and underpasses, or navigating the clerical and legal challenges
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Yes, they are right, but the whole thing was supposed to be done like 10 years ago for a lot less money!
How much tracks are being laid is basically immaterial until ALL of them are put down!
The tracks, if not used, are going to rust and decay, so it is actually better from engineering point of view to wait with the tracks until most of the other work is done.
But, now the stupid CA authorities will put down some tracks, just to make a point.
The tracks will sit there and rust for at least ten years, but Duffy cannot make his point any more.
Another blunder! Just to show off, they are piling blunder over blunder.
Let Californians pay for it.
Every nickel.
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The only thing that will be accelerated will be the burning of taxpayer money.
they’re desperate to get one mile of track laid, because then no one every again can claim not one mile of track has been laid ...
LOL
CA politicians would still be embezzling all the money from this if Trump hadn’t won and not one foot of track would ever be put in place. Newscum has to have some sort of “accomplishment” to point to for 2028.
We are pleased to announce that our original date of the 12th Of Never is now ahead if schedule and will be completed on the 11th of Never.
And when will the first high speed train roll over those tracks? From where to where? How many miles? What speed? How much revenue? What’s the cost? What’s the break even date?
Won’t happen. Not even 50 miles. It will make a fun bike trail.
Since when do leftist lunatics care about reality? They anlways ignore reality when it suits them. They should have just laid the track first then built the railbed and bridges afterwards. It would have worked out just fine, just like windmills, trannies and socialism
It’s been discussed here before, but in the initial months of this asinine project 15 years ago, a team was brought in from the France’s TGV high-speed rail to advise. Within like 6 months, all the Frenchies had quit... saying that the Californians running the thing were totally incompetent and completely hopeless . The French then went to work on 200+ mile high speed rail line in a place that wasn’t so insane... Morocco. Within like 7 years, the Moroccan line was up and running.
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