Posted on 03/14/2024 10:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
California's mega high-speed rail project between San Francisco to Los Angeles faces major funding hurdles
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No fast rail sys the is a safe on in California to many risks involved quakes soft soil land slides...........
The only "completed" section of this high speed railway is between Fresno and Merced. It's a huge eyesore and a train to nowhere.
When was this project started, ten years ago?
In the meantime, China has built a countrywide system of high speed railways, cutting travel time down for millions of people, at a fraction of the cost.
“Globalist”?
I happened to be speaking with some Spanish railroad construction engineers a year or so ago. Spain has quite an export market in railroad and other civil engineering projects. Ya wanna bridge? They can bridge.
A couple of the Spanish outfits were involved in the California boondoggle, threw up their hands and quit.
The thing is really a rehash of the Madrid-Barcelona AVE. Same distance, similar mountains, etc. But the US red tape and bureaucracy is on a cosmic scale.
Ever drive down that major artery Rt. 99? Massive amounts of real traffic on that f’n joke of a broke down highway. No money to make repairs and upgrades but billions to pi$$ away on woke, green nonsense.
First, they are based on a “field of dreams” usage concept. If you build it it will be wildly used by many. It is not based on solid projected usage.
Second, services like this need to be substantially supported by revenues. At a minimum, projected revenues need to exceed both operating and maintenance costs and should further include depreciation or a fraction of debt service on bonds. Almost all US public transportation projects receive huge pork barrel federal earmark grants and require annual subsidies to “keep fares at levels riders can afford.”
Projects like this are a misuse of scarce tax dollars that a ridership will never support,
They will be performing replacement and maintenance on this idiotic thing by the time anyone gets ride and the morons who thought this was great will be dead or Alzheimer patients....
No reason to fix route 99, the super trains going to take all that traffic.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They need $100 billion. If they brought in Chinese Coolies, they could get it done for $100 million, but politicians would pocket $50 billion, but half price overall.
A 100 billion here, a hundred billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
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I believe the same accountants working the California rail goatf*k are also involved with the U-Crane debacle.
WRT the monolithic media. Try to find info on the project that isn't cheerleading. You can scare it up, but you have to sort through the garbage meant for cattle (us).
I can believe the Spaniards threw up their hands; Cali is now more "byzantine" than Byzantium.
In other words there’s more bribes and payoffs that have to be taken care of...
China has built 28 THOUSAND Miles of high speed train track connecting almost all of their major cities in 15 years. But then, California government is a corrupt Democratic Party shithoe
The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world’s longest and most extensively used – with a total length of 45,000 kilometres (28,000 mi) by the end of 2023.[1][2][3] The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–380 km/h (120–240 mph).[4] China’s HSR accounts for two-thirds of the world’s total high-speed railway networks.[5][6] Almost all HSR trains, track and service are owned and operated by the China Railway Corporation under the brand China Railway High-speed (CRH).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#References
Waste of money. It will never be completed. Instead, California could have built several nuke plants, reservoirs and paved the roads.
Or Desalination Plants that they really need.
It looks like to me the only people who benefit are SF, SJ and Sacramento who want to go to Disneyland in Anaheim.
Who in LA is going to want to take the northern leg?
Crime on this train is going to eventually doom it.
Red China also has unlimited slave labor. And stolen tech.
one hundred billion? a little pinch no one will notice
Psychotic homeless people and illegals need a high-speed train to foul up and push old ladies off of.
$33bn was for the longer, original distance:
2019: Hoover Institution: California’s Bullet-Train Fiasco Continues: $20 Billion For 120 Miles?
Last month, California governor Gavin Newsom announced that California’s ill-fated high-speed rail project would be scaled back enormously due to cost overruns and delays. The original project, which had an initial cost estimate of $33 billion, would have provided high-speed train service (speeds on some segments in excess of 200 miles per hour) beginning in San Diego, traveling through Los Angeles and the Central Valley up to the state capital of Sacramento, and would have also included the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley...
https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-bullet-train-fiasco-continues-20-billion-120-miles
$100,000,000,000 MORE???
The USA went from zero to nuclear power dominant for only two billion (1945 dollars - 34 billion, 2022) with the Manhattan Project.
And from Einstein’s letter to Hiroshima drop it took only about 6 years.
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