Posted on 01/06/2015 8:49:34 AM PST by george76
Ready or not, Californians - and America - here it comes.
After a two year delay, during which the cost nearly doubled, California's high speed rail system will break ground this week. The project - said to cost $68 billion - will link Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2028.
There's only one teentsy, tiny problem: They have no idea how they are going to fund it.
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What of that 200 MPH boast? The original design of the project called for railroad tracks totally dedicated to the high speed rail system. But that proved even more ruinously expensive than the current guestimate. So now, the plan calls for a "blended" arrangement where the HSR will share the tracks already used by commuter rail systems. That will slow the train down to around 60 MPH through the cities and towns already serviced by ordinary railroads
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LOL. Good point!
I agree with all except the last one. The democrats and their republican clones in DC will suck money out of the rest of the country (already talking about INCREASING the federal gas tax) to ensure that their supporters continue to swill at the public trough
Imagine the high speed Internet California could have for 1/100th of the cost. Nobody would actually need to travel.
In THIS Congress?........................
You bet. Don't look for any conservative action from the current crop of GOP insiders.
You may be right.......................
The shovel will cost 5 billion dollars alone. Then, it will be halted by environmental protestors who will demand that an EIS be performed on the dirt the shovel will turn over at the ceremony. The ceremony location will be on critical habitat of the 4 speckled bilge toad that ONLY lives on that one spot of ground. This will delay the project another 8 years and cost 20,000,000,000 in fees and delays. When the ceremony is resumed in 2026 the shovel will reveal an ancient indian bone and the whole process will start over again and cost another 40,000,000,000 to relocate the ceremony.
Yes.
>> The only purpose of this train-wreck is to enrich the players
Yes, this boondoggle will never get done and will cost zillions. We don't need high-speed rail between SF and LA. It's easy to hop on a plane, I've done it many times between SF and LA, takes an hour.
Government can't give us high-speed roads here in the SF Bay Area; main corridors like 880 always move at a crawl approaching the cities. Same goes for LA region. We've got a highway to nowhere, 380, just south of SF. It was envisioned as going from the Pacific coast through the SF peninsula and across the Bay. It's only a few miles long between 101 and 280, the wide roadway deadends into a mountain. Been that way for decades, blocked by environmentalists and other reasons. We really need another bridge across the Bay because existing bridges are jammed and traffic crawls. But they won't extend 380 with a bridge as originally envisioned.
We're no longer the can-do nation for what is critically needed. We're a banana republic that builds to enrich a few idiots.
Just like that Superconducting Supercollider in Texas, this will never get built.
Who will ride the White Elephant Express? It will
transport the few former farm workers who don’t have
licenses north and south to not work in the fields
that don’t have crops because Government Brown shipped
the water south to supply the good folks in the
Southland who don’t have jobs because the Governor hates
business.
I guess the White Elephant Express will be carrying imaginary commuters from Tedium to Apathy and back? What a super idea from the mind of Gov. Moonbeam! I’m sure that every once and awhile, the WEE will have some live travelers — other than the train crew. However, the starting and stopping stations are in the middle of nowhere, so how do any passengers get to their destinations on both ends of the line? Oh, by taxi cab. I’m certain the Greenies will insist the taxis are Electric Vehicles.
Well, the fool thing is started.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article5519280.html
This boondoggle will take a big chunk of my sister & her husbands small vineyard south of FResno
Fixed it.
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