Posted on 08/28/2025 7:04:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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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