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  • President Trump to Launch Investigation into High Cost Of California High-Speed Rail

    02/05/2025 8:13:08 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 19 replies
    California Globe ^ | February 5, 2025 | Evan Symon
    President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he will be launching an investigation into the high cost of California High Speed Rail (CAHSR), fulfilling a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promise made late last year. Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008 with a San Francisco to Los Angeles line set to open by 2028, the California high speed rail system has since ballooned to costing $128 billion, to $135 billion, with an estimated partial completion being set somewhere in the 2030’s. Last year in March, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHRSA) confirmed that the system still needed...
  • Healthcare is Newsom’s biggest unfinished project. Trump complicates the task

    12/26/2024 3:42:52 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Dec. 26, 2024 3 AM PT | Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc
    As Gov. Gavin Newsom enters the second half of his final term, healthcare stands out as his most ambitious but glaringly incomplete initiative for California residents.The issue will probably define his national profile for better or worse, and the incoming Trump administration brings a new wrinkle.SACRAMENTO — Nearly six years after he took office vowing to be California’s “healthcare governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for all Californians. More than a million California residents living...
  • California Democrats Ask Buttigieg for Half a Billion Dollars for High-Speed Rail Before Trump Takes Office

    12/22/2024 6:45:47 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/22/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    California Democrats have written to outgoing Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to ask for more than half a billion dollars in funding for an ailing high-speed rail project that President-elect Donald Trump defunded in 2019. As Breitbart News reported, Trump withheld $1 billion in funding from the project after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) canceled the original project. Newsom had explained to the state legislature that the original plan for a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco “bullet” train “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long.” Trump then demanded the state refund the money federal taxpayers had given it — applying...
  • The omnibus spending bill had $8 billion dollars for the Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement.

    12/20/2024 6:30:53 AM PST · by george76 · 92 replies
    X ^ | Dec 18, 2024 | Matt Dursh
    The omnibus spending bill had $8 billion dollars for the Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement. . That is way too much money to rebuild the Key Bridge. Easily four times as much as it should cost. ... This reminds the Oahu rail project. Around $12B, tons of fraud... total failure of a project. Does not meet intent. Also heavy foreign outsourcing for building talent. How much did it cost to build the bridge initially, adjusted for inflation? - The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed in March 2024, initially cost about $61 million to build in 1977. Adjusted for inflation...
  • Elon Musk thinks high-speed rail is wasteful? Cutting funds would be the crime

    12/18/2024 6:03:49 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 101 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | December 18, 2024 | Tad Weber
    Sacramento-area congressman Kevin Kiley took to the floor of the House of Representatives recently to declare the following: “Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to report that the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency has honed in on perhaps the single-greatest example of government waste in United States history,” the Republican from Rocklin intoned. “And that is California’s high-speed-rail boondoggle.”
  • How Exactly Did California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom Buy a $9.1 Million Home on a Public Servant Salary?

    11/19/2024 5:58:56 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 63 replies
    California Globe ^ | November 19, 2024 | Katy Grimes
    Public Servant Gavin Newsom’s rise in California politics and acquired power since the 1990s has been through the knavery of family and influential friends. If you ever doubted that politics is made up of the elite class who see themselves as the ruling class, doubt no more: Governor Gavin Newsom and the “First Partner” (his wife) just purchased a $9.1 million home in Marin County. The “mansion” is 5,600 square feet, with Newsoms paying 7 percent above the asking price.
  • Israel Is Planning an ‘Inland Suez Canal’ Across Its Desert. At What Cost?

    11/05/2023 4:02:06 PM PST · by ATOMIC_PUNK · 20 replies
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news ^ | Jan 17, 2023 | Moshe Gilad
    Israel Is Planning an ‘Inland Suez Canal’ Across Its Desert. At What Cost? Israel's planned high-speed train to Eilat: dream or potential environmental train wreck? In theory, it sounds amazing: a high-speed train to Eilat, the country’s southernmost city on the shores of the Red Sea. This was attested to by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his recent Knesset speech enumerating the new government’s goals, in which he described it as a major national project: “The mission is to develop the country’s infrastructures, including developing a high-speed rail that will travel hundreds of kilometers per hour and connect the country...
  • An Israeli rival to the Suez

    11/10/2003 4:30:39 PM PST · by yonif · 5 replies · 146+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov. 10, 2003 | DAN GERSTENFELD
    Israel will build a railway between Ashdod and Eilat, allowing ships that dock at the Red Sea port to transfer goods to the ports of Ashdod and Haifa and from there to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, in an attempt to compete with the Suez Canal, Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday. Speaking to investors at the fifth Go4Europe business conference at Tel Aviv's Hilton Hotel, organized by investment bank Cukierman & Co., Netanyahu said that big ships arriving from the Far East are now forced to transfer their goods by land to an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean from...
  • Egyptian FM ridicules reports about Israeli plan ???to build alternative to Suez Canal

    11/05/2003 7:41:49 PM PST · by yonif · 10 replies · 125+ views
    Al Bawaba ^ | 11/5/2003
    Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher was quoted as saying on Wednesday that press reports over Israel's plans to build a canal linking the Aqaba Bay with the Mediterranean as an alternative to the Suez Canal were a mere "illusion." Maher told the Syrian daily Tishreen "We've heard this many many times and it's a mere illusion." He stressed that the Suez Canal "has and will always be historic and serves the world economy." "If some do not like this ... that's their business, but I affirm that the (Suez) Canal is bigger than being played down by anyone," Maher said....
  • Hamburg station virus scare on high-speed train

    10/02/2024 9:28:12 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | 10 02 2024 | Staff
    <p>A station platform has been cordoned off at Hamburg central station in northern Germany amid fears that a train passenger may have arrived carrying a dangerous virus.</p><p>A fire department spokesman told the Bild tabloid that the man and his girlfriend had developed flu-like symptoms on a high-speed train from Frankfurt.</p>
  • Amtrak Trains Keep Breaking Down Despite Massive Injection Of Taxpayer Cash

    07/12/2024 7:46:37 AM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | July 09, 2024 | Wallace White
    Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., continues to have routine breakdowns despite receiving massive injections of taxpayer dollars from the Biden administration, according to data from the Department of Transportation (DOT). Since 2021, there have been 333 Amtrak train incidents reported nationwide as of July 9, 2024, slightly less than the 397 incidents that occurred between 2016 and July 2020 during former President Trump’s tenure, according to the DOT. The Biden administration, as a part of an announced $66 billion for passenger rail in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, has dedicated huge amounts of taxpayer cash to Amtrak,...
  • Service Temporarily Disrupted Between New York and New Haven. ( Amtrak )

    07/06/2024 4:31:03 PM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    Amtrak ^ | July 06, 2024 | Amtrak
    On July 6, due to an ongoing electric power issue, Amtrak canceled service between Boston and New York City for the remainder of the day. Amtrak is communicating directly with impacted customers about this service interruption and offering options for rebooking their travel plans. Amtrak apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. Our crews are working hard to correct the issues.
  • Plan to connect L.A. to Bay Area by bullet train gets full environmental approval

    06/27/2024 2:48:24 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 41 replies
    KTLA ^ | June 27, 2024 | by: Travis Schlepp
    California’s massive and ambitious project to connect downtown Los Angeles with the Bay Area via electric trains capable of reaching speeds of over 200 mph has cleared its biggest hurdle to date. On Thursday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority received complete environmental approval between the two regions, a historic milestone in a state notorious for holding up construction projects for environmental review.
  • California is mercilessly mocked for 'world's most pointless crossing' high-speed rail bridge that cost $11 BILLION

    05/05/2024 12:43:32 PM PDT · by george76 · 123 replies
    DAILY MAIL ^ | 5 May 2024 | ISABELLE STANLEY
    The High Speed Rail Authority shared an update on the Fresno River Viaduct .. They were widely mocked with Elon Musk and Billy Markus piling in .. California has been mercilessly mocked for boasting about completing the 'world's most pointless crossing' to nowhere at a cost of $11billion. The California High Speed Rail Authority shared an update on the Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County last week, proudly saying it was one of the 'first completed high-speed rail structures'. The Tweet did not get the reaction officials were hoping for with Elon Musk and Dogecoin creator Billy Markus piling in...
  • High-speed rail system from Las Vegas to Southern California breaks ground

    04/22/2024 1:10:09 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 87 replies
    CNBC Business News ^ | 22 April 2024 | Ryan Anastasio
    The Brightline West system will reach speeds of 200 miles per hour across a 218-mile route between Las Vegas and three California stops including Rancho Cucamonga, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles...The project received $3 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the rest will be privately funded...
  • California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail

    03/14/2024 5:30:06 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/14/2024 | Ed Morrissey
    Hey, a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. But apparently not real progress.When I first started writing about California's high-speed rail boondoggle thirteen years ago, its advocates claimed they could connect Los Angeles and San Francisco for $33 billion. After getting $3.5 billion from the Obama administration, the number grew to $42 billion, and even then critics put closer to nine figures. Despite calling the project a "train wreck," the LA Times editorial board endorsed the project and a new state board that was supposed to exercise fiscal discipline and enforce...
  • California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete route from San Francisco to Los Angeles

    03/14/2024 10:42:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 84 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | Tue, March 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM CDT | KCRA
    California's mega high-speed rail project between San Francisco to Los Angeles faces major funding hurdles VIDEO AT LINK.....................
  • Las Vegas-to-California high-speed electric rail project gets OK for $2.5 billion more in bonds

    01/24/2024 7:24:47 PM PST · by george76 · 53 replies
    KCRA ^ | Jan 23, 2024
    A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California got another boost on Tuesday with Biden administration approval to issue $2.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds for the $12 billion project. The announcement benefiting the Brightline West project followed a $3 billion U.S. Department of Transportation grant in December and government authorization in 2020 for the company to sell $1 billion in similar bonds. ... The 218-mile (351-kilometer) Brightline West project aims to whisk passengers at 186 mph (300 kph) or more in electric trains on new tracks along the Interstate 15 corridor ... No date has been announced...
  • San Francisco Railroad Extension Costs A Whopping $4 Billion Per Mile

    10/28/2023 5:52:20 AM PDT · by george76 · 53 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | October 27, 2023 | ARJUN SINGH
    The city of San Francisco is in the process of constructing a downtown-area railroad extension that is estimated to cost in excess of $4 billion per mile of tunnel, The San Francisco Standard reported. The extension, known as The Portal, is a tunneled rail service that would connect the Salesforce Transit Center in the city’s downtown corridor to Caltrain and future high-speed trains, according to the Standard. The project’s overall cost estimate was recently revised up from $6.5 billion to a total of $8.25 billion, which makes for a per-mile cost of over $4 billion, ... “[Y]ou’re seeing some whopping...
  • Knife attacks at German train stations have more than doubled since 2019

    10/08/2023 5:07:53 PM PDT · by george76 · 12 replies
    Remix News ^ | October 06, 2023 | JUNGE FREIHEIT
    The latest figures show an undeniable correlation between an increase in violent crime and immigration.. The number of knife attacks recorded at train stations in Germany has more than doubled since 2019, and foreign nationals are greatly overrepresented when analyzing the ethnicity of suspects. By Aug. 31 this year, the German Federal Police had already recorded 527 violent crimes in which a knife had been used at German train stations — the equivalent of more than two knife attacks a day on average. The figures were provided by the federal government following a request by Martin Hess, an MP for...