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The estimated cost of California's high speed rail system is now up to $105 billion
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| Feb 08, 2022
| John Sexton
Posted on 02/08/2022 7:55:42 PM PST by george76
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posted on
02/08/2022 7:55:42 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Can you say “boondoggle”?
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posted on
02/08/2022 7:59:30 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: george76
That’s a lot of consulting contract opportunities right there. Yum, pork!
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posted on
02/08/2022 7:59:36 PM PST
by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: george76
Don’t you still have to drive to the train depots?
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:01:40 PM PST
by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
To: george76
I thought it was dead. It still lives, I guess.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:02:00 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
To: george76
That’s what happens when you let gov’t manage a project. You’d think they would have learned by Amtrak
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:02:51 PM PST
by
econjack
(I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
To: george76
So obvious from before the very start that this boondoggle was going to be massive.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:04:11 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: george76
Let Newsom and Zuckerberg, et. al. fund it from their own Sta$hes.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:06:32 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: george76
Libs love them some choo choos. They surely do.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:06:46 PM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: george76
The Big Dig all over again.
Saw this coming a mile away.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:07:09 PM PST
by
jdsteel
("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
To: george76
As for actual design and construction, the report says design of the initial 119 miles will be complete in the 2nd quarter of this year. The project now owns 90% of the parcels needed for construction of that segment and actual construction is approximately halfway done. Wait, they only have half the rail built and are still missing 10% of the land but will get done by June 30, 2020? I hope they don't have any big news that day because that's when I was going to invite the media to see me flap my arms really hard and fly to the moon, which is just about as likely as completing the first segment by then.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:07:56 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
To: george76
So later this year, the politicians can ride a high speed train until they get to mile marker 119. Then what? Go backwards for 199 miles? That is the definition of modern government.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:08:32 PM PST
by
Bernard
(Jeffrey Toobin may turn out to be the most ethical character at CNN because he only abused himself.)
To: george76
"a quarter of the total 500 mile project"
How did they engineer this project to such a even number?
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:12:23 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: george76
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:12:44 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: george76
They also expect VERY LIGHT ridership on this segment, as the cows have made it perfectly clear that they have no need to commute back and forth between Bakersfield and Fresno (and there’s very few humans there).
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:18:25 PM PST
by
BobL
(Money is the most important thing in my life.)
To: george76
Be cheaper to give anyone who wanted it a limo and a driver.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:18:35 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: george76
They could buy a fleet of 737s and operate them with free tickets for 20 years for less.
To: Bernard
Politicians will not leave the coast to take a train from Bakersfield to Madera.
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:26:23 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: BobL
Fresno?
Wouldn’t that make it FReep Train
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:27:23 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: george76
This effing massive theft of taxpayers’ money is still in the works? 🙄
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posted on
02/08/2022 8:31:51 PM PST
by
Pajamajan
( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new socialist America.)
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