Posted on 03/10/2018 6:33:11 AM PST by reaganaut1
Politicians destroyed central valley real estate prices by cutting off their water. The politicians and their cronies were then able to purchase real estate in the proposed rail areas at a very low price.
Really. Think about it. Set up high speed turnoffs and a separate terminal just for an autonomously piloted shuttle Airbus. Sort of like 500mph touch-n-go’s from Seattle to San Diego. Allocated airway and STAR & SID to provide automated landings and takeoff.
***The price of the California bullet train project jumped sharply Friday when the state rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion and could rise as high as $98.1 billion — an uptick of at least $13 billion from estimates two years ago. ***
Somehow Boss Tweed’s Courthouse comes to mind.
2033
78 Billion likely even more
Madness
I live in Florida, I don't care how much California is paying for the boondoggle train.
California is paying for the vast majority of the cost, not US taxpayers.
And every bit of that violates the terms outlined in the original initiative. I bet the hot shot who spent his wealth to get it passed regrets it now
Relax. That’s only $824 million...
... per mile.
The entire interstate system cost $128.9 billion
Well read this
Guess who the got the METHEXPRESS conract?
Mar 20, 2015 - Dianne Feinstein’s husband wins near-billion dollar California ‘high speed rail’ contract. By Thomas Lifson ... husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco and Los Angeles.
SCRAP THIS BOONDOGGLE. PUT IN A FREEWAY INSTEAD!
If they kept the route from la to San Francisco like planned, it wouldn’t be a problem. But they decided to go into rural areas of the state too. Dumb!!!
Technology has moved beyond fixed transportation infrastructure as surely as the Germans moved beyond the Maginot Line.
Watch this FIVE YEAR OLD video of acrobatic drones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ
If you watched Musk’s boosters returning to Canaveral, you’ve seen one possibility. Musk has said this technology will be used for mass transit very soon.
Lol. California actually helps South Carolina survive. You are funny though.
Dianne’s husband’s companies have already made billions of dollars off of transportation projects. It is the Democratic way!
$98,000,000,000... and likely to go higher... All to shave about 20-30 in off of the overall trip from LA to SF... and seriously, how many people commute between those two cities on a regular basis?
And you're hilarious. I guarantee you that virtually every South Carolina citizen would be more than happy to say "keep whatever it is that you think is "help" to yourself, we're just fine without it, bless your heart."
Wouldn’t flying be better between big cities and use trains etc for moving people from airports to smaller towns, the downtown or the burbs?
It just seems to make more sense than to waste all this money and take over all this land. Nevermind the earthquake issue. But what the hell do I know.
What’s Brown’s take?
Maybe Trump can figure out a way to kill it.
If they mention a real number the minimum expected budget should be calculated as at least 2.5 times that number. The original estimate was roughly in the 30 billion dollar range and here we are at 77.5. Now that they’re mentioning 77.5 we should be thinking about 180 to 190 billion. If it can go as high as 98.5 then it is a solid 250 and no one should have any doubt that the number will ultimately exceed 300 billion or 10 times the original estimate
. This is standard operating procedure.
It’ll be way over $200B before it’s over.
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