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California’s high-speed rail had a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020.
It’s 2025 and the budget has shot up to $128 billion. Sorry, let me correct that, it has shot up to $135 billion. By the time you read this, it’ll probably be up another few billion.
The Trump administration is pulling funding from the ‘train to nowhere’ because well, just look at the Gov. Newsom press release.
“The Authority has met every obligation, as confirmed by repeated federal reviews, as recently as February 2025. America’s only high-speed rail project underway is fast approaching the track-laying phase.”
After 17 years and cost overruns of 1300%, the train is ‘fast’ approaching the track-laying phase. Fast, like high-speed, being measured at the speed of government bureaucracy.
Forget the partisan politics and the animosity toward California, what kind of lunatic goes on funding a project that is off by this amount in time and money… and that has no rational purpose to begin with?
“Trump wants to hand China the future,” Gov Newsom declared. Does handing China the future somehow mean tricking it into spending 17 years on a $135 billion project that no one wants? If so, let’s hand China that future and it can pay for California’s train to nowhere.
If California had chosen a private company to develop and construct the high-speed train system, it would have been finished a decade ago. However, California being California, they decided to let government and lobbyists develop the project and then award no-bid contracts to their friends and accepted kickbacks and bribes to keep the funding going and the grift proceeding.
If a private company had mismanaged shareholder funds in such an egregious manner, the CEO, CFO, and entire board of directors would be under the prison. But because it’s government money and there is no turning off that spigot, there will never be a reckoning.
The only remnants will be the concrete bridge supports already built and the snail darters frolicking in the rivers. The money is long gone and no one will ever be held accountable.
17 years … lol … I was against this stupid project from the beginning … one could drive to LA, or fly in an hour.
Yes and Indonesia built the world’s fastest bullet train system in just three years or so.
America has become a joke. I blame D-bag leftists and corrupt Repubes.
Trains to nowhere? They’re trains to the state Capitol in suckramento, if you ask me.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a mountain range between the rail route and the California central coast?
It would seem this high speed rail is being built in slow motion. Is that some indication of the future speed?
Mute point anyway, Star Trek type transporters will be in operation before it’s finished.
In The Year 2525, if man is still alive…..