The so-called High Speed Rail was pitched to voters at a cost of $33B in 2008. The latest projection: $128B. The latest news: no more federal funding...let's hope.
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California’s troubled high speed rail project may soon lose its federal funding.
The project was sold to California voters in 2008 with a claimed total price tag of $33 billion. The politicians who championed it promised it would connect an 800-mile route between Los Angeles and San Francisco with bullet trains traveling up to 220 miles per hour.
Over the last 16 years, the project has lurched along like a zombie on life support. California’s High Speed Rail Authority (CHRSA) shortened the length of the line to just 119 miles, initially aimed at connecting the cities of Merced and Bakersfield.
While fiscally responsible leaders would have pulled the plug on the often-delayed boondoggle long ago, California’s top politicians kept doubling down on it. They used their influence to pour more and more state and federal taxpayer dollars into it. Consequently, the project’s cost has blown up to an estimated $128 billion. It is also years or decades away from starting service, blowing through deadline after deadline. Assuming it ever would start service.
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Zombie Bullet Train Going Nowhere
The U.S. Department of Transportation, which has given $7 billion to the project over its history, thinks it has “no viable path forward.” The Los Angeles Times‘ Colleen Shalby reports:
In a 310-page compliance review released Wednesday, the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls, missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail. The review targets federal grants for construction in the Central Valley. Those funds could be pulled within the next 37 days following the high-speed rail authority’s response.
“CHSRA relied on the false hope of an unending spigot of Federal taxpayer dollars,” the Federal Railroad Administration’s acting administrator Drew Feeley wrote. “In essence, CHSRA has conned the taxpayer out of its $4 billion investment, with no viable plan to deliver even that partial segment on time.”
Despite having 16 years to figure it out, California’s state government planners are still billions short of the money they claim they will need to finish the job. They have no idea where it will come from.
The End of the Line?
For its part, the U.S. Department of Transportation has seen enough. The $4 billion figure it is looking to claw back after a 37-day review is the portion of federal government funds given to California that has not yet been spent. California’s taxpayers are not being asked to give back the other $3 billion the state spent on the project.
California’s zombie bullet train project is the largest infrastructure project in the U.S. Pulling back these funds provides an immediate benefit to U.S. taxpayers because it will enable other, more viable transportation projects to go forward.
It’s time for California’s politicians to get on board with projects that have a real chance for success.
M;y technology... suppressed by Propaganda like this... an I can't tolerate any of this... is the key.
Cheaper safer faster cleaner and future proof.
With a Passenger transition rate 10 times that of Aviation.
With an Infrastructure system that compares and is second to none.
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The Airstream (AST), is a 70-meter aluminium and carbon fibre scramjet train that carries 256 passengers faster than a jet fighter, along its own cushion of air. The AST’s forward motion pushes air under the passenger cell to create lift. The air is then compressed and pushed at high pressure through channels into the space between track and train. Isaac Newton’s third law of motion – ‘that any force in one direction creates an equal and opposite force in the opposite direction’ – causes the levitation (another Brit!). The faster AST accelerates, the higher the pressure and speed is in theory, infinite.
This technology... which by the way neither you nor anyone ever in MSM mentioned... as a proof of your corruption... is the only future proof technology that is designed beyond the 21st century.
So please... don't ever write anything about HSR unless you evaluated my technology.
These Government approved hit peaces suck!
My System however will stand the test of time and I am sick hearing the lame excuses while ignoring m,y existenz.
Propaganda hit peace that is what you are writing!
Wasting Taxpayer money when there is a solution that is Ignored.
I say this again and again and over again until someone comes to me and interviews me,
Stop this Bullshit... this isn't High Speed rail.
This is!
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-invention-the-illuminati-does
M;y technology... suppressed by Propaganda like this... an I can't tolerate any of this... is the key.
Cheaper safer faster cleaner and future proof.
With a Passenger transition rate 10 times that of Aviation.
With an Infrastructure system that compares and is second to none.
-
The Airstream (AST), is a 70-meter aluminium and carbon fibre scramjet train that carries 256 passengers faster than a jet fighter, along its own cushion of air. The AST’s forward motion pushes air under the passenger cell to create lift. The air is then compressed and pushed at high pressure through channels into the space between track and train. Isaac Newton’s third law of motion – ‘that any force in one direction creates an equal and opposite force in the opposite direction’ – causes the levitation (another Brit!). The faster AST accelerates, the higher the pressure and speed is in theory, infinite.
https://electricvillage.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/hs2-will-be-a-real-slowcoach/
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This technology... which by the way neither you nor anyone ever in MSM mentioned... as a proof of your corruption... is the only future proof technology that is designed beyond the 21st century.
So please... don't ever write anything about HSR unless you evaluated my technology.
These Government approved hit peaces suck!
My System however will stand the test of time and I am sick hearing the lame excuses while ignoring m,y existenz.
Propaganda hit peace that is what you are writing!
Wasting Taxpayer money when there is a solution that is Ignored.
F that!