[KarlInOhio]

instead requiring private businesses competing for the project to assume cost overruns and operating expenses,

And what happens when the overruns and low ridership costs are in the billions? Then the private company declares bankruptcy and sticks the expenses back on the state. Or else the company is sufficiently politically connected to get a huge bailout.

[ridesthemiles]

Too bac that Jerry Brown hasn’t the cojones to turn down the money for a high speed rail in Calif.

That is a long state- & the ridership will NEVER support the rail line. Period.

[fight_truth_decay]

"the private company declares bankruptcy" ..good pt KarlinOhio.

[WackySam]

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio-

“He’s just wrecked it. ... He’s taking our state and our community down the wrong track.”

Another phony RINO.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/reaction-to-gov-rick-scotts-decision-to-reject-rail-money/1152078