[BigEdLB]

The train to nowhere? They need some drinking buddy of Gov Loathsome to get a cheap paycheck on the taxpires dime?

[rktman]

Choo choo no hurt you! 🚅💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸

[Wuli]

Another waste of money, the project should simply be killed.

[texas booster]

And what will the Inspector General do when the corruption leads to politicians?

Forget that he will pull a Durham should it lead to News*m, especially as he is gearing up for a presidential run.

[tet68]

It’s ok, in a few years it will be turned into
a bike path...

[Seruzawa]

[glorgau]

Project management powered by hopium.

[cgbg]

China will have a military outpost on the moon and Mars before CA finishes their “speed rail” project.

[DMD13]

This is so corrupt! I hope Gruesome Newsom runs in 2024 against Trump or DeSantis. Of course, any other “Republican” will not bring this stuff up.

[qaz123]

Very simple answer to this....So what if they’re getting an IG. He will accomplish nothing and even if he does find something, nothing will happen.

[rellic]

California can learn from Honolulu. The Honolulu “train to no where useful”, Is a real study in how to make certain Democrats very rich at taxpayer expense, never finish the project, and nobody gets prosecuted.

[WMarshal]

They need to do just a few simple things. First, pass a law that all environmental regulations are to be waived and that no lawsuits can interfere with the planning, land acquisition, and construction. Second, they need to finalize the path and immediately use eminent domain to buy all the land in one fell swoop. Third, they need firm project milestones where contractor performance and results are evaluated and contractors are replaced if they do not meet the goals of the project.

[hanamizu]

I’ve taken a bullet train in Japan from Tokyo to Kyoto and back and it’s fantastic technology.

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I have as well. And their system was started in the 60s? I think in the last 50 years there has been a total of one fatality—a guy who somehow managed to get on the tracks.

But even if California figures out how to complete high-speed rail, the one critical thing it will lack will be Japanese train crews and their self discipline. If he’s got a union card, Homer Simpson will be driving the California train.

[frank ballenger]

As this project was being planned they polled the Californians and found that a large majority wanted funding for bus and other public transportation greatly increased but wanted others to ride on them while they themselves kept driving their own cars on the roads. Response to would you ride public transportation daily.

[BBQToadRibs2]

When it was approved in 2008 it was 9 billion, LOL!

[Spok]

A sham inspector to hide the graft, but stealing taxpayers money is so open and casual these days I don’t know why they bother. Solyndra for example.

[mountainlion]

Fox guarding the henhouse.

[catnipman]

as with ALL mass transit, how do you conveniently get about once you’re “there”?

[Oscar in Batangas]

Hoo Boy! Another layer of overhead.

[Billthedrill]

“The idea that you would spend all your money on a train that doesn’t connect to anything and just hope that you’re going to get more money, I find a really frightening business proposition,” said Friedman.

It sounds ridiculous but it seems to have worked very well so far. There isn't much a little systemic corruption can't accomplish.