[SaxxonWoods]

Tax the addicts.

[bray]

10% for the Big Guys.

[Bon of Babble]

The way San Francisco is emptying out - at least of its workers and productive citizens - there won’t be anyone left to ride the $4 billion dollar per mile train.

Homeless will be allowed to ride it (for free, of course) as a form as shelter - which is how it works in Los Angeles.

Thing is, I don’t expect it to be finished in my life time so who knows? Re: California’s Highs Speed Rail - 15 years and not a mile of rail has been put down...

[j.havenfarm]

Tangentially, here’s a good opportunity to once again denounce my idiot fellow voters in CA who voted for the LA to SF high speed rail in 2008. $33B cost projected and completion of the system early in the 2030’s. Now cost estimates are $100B higher, and even those are a joke once purchase of urban right of way begins. Not one choo choo has run, though they’re hoping to have 171 miles in the middle of nowhere done by the end of this decade.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-11/new-cost-estimate-for-high-speed-rail-puts-california-bullet-train-100-billion-in-the-red

[hanamizu]

So, if my math is right, the budget for a couple of miles of tunnel/track in SF is roughly 1/4 of the original estimate for the entire LA-SF high-speed rail boondoggle.

[vpintheak]

But there is no grift or fraud going on anywhere folks. Move along. Nothing to see here.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So these ding dongs are paying over 4 billion per mile, when it really should only cost about 200 to 500 million per mile???

If the US government pays for half, as SF is requesting, nobody in the United States should pay any attention to any federal law or regulation ever again. #IrishDemocracy

[ronnie raygun]

Another trough to feed from

[cgbg]

Article: “The High-Speed Rail (HSR) project connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles”

Note from breaking news in the year 4000 A.D.:

“Rumors abound that the mythical city of San Francisco has finally been found in the ocean off the coast of California. Skeptics argue that the fragments of maps of a high speed train between San Francisco and Los Angeles are proof the finds are frauds since no such trains were ever built.”

Lol.

[Retain Mike]

The SR-71 Blackbird cost $200,000 per mile to fly. It could fly 6,000,000 miles per each mile of the build. Not the greatest analogy, but interesting.

[Billthedrill]

...the U.S. government has been petitioned to fund half the project’s cost.

This is my shocked face.

[frank ballenger]

Chicago has a Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue.

These $4 Billion miles will have to compete.🚂💲💲💲💲💲💲💲

[SpaceBar]

~$63,000 per inch.

[Lisbon1940]

Musk could do it for less.