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Feds could be coming for California's over-budget bullet train
Topic Started: May 1 2018, 08:24 PM (230 Views)
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The biggest boondoggle in California history is now under the microscope of the U.S. Department of Transportation as costs continue to climb on a multi-billion dollar high-speed rail project that routinely misses deadlines and blows through budgets.

The DOT is currently auditing the pricey West Coast venture- something critics claim is long overdue on what’s essentially a pet project that’s billions in the red, seven years behind schedule and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/01/feds-could-be-coming-for-californias-over-budget-bullet-train.html
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The bullet train project was sold to voters in 2008 as a $33 billion ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 3 hours or less.

“Since then, the project has been scaled back dramatically by lopping off the Sacramento and San Diego segments while ballooning the estimated cost from $77 billion to $98 billion,” Denham told Fox.

He adds that currently the High-Speed Rail Authority has “no complete or viable funding plan.”

Originally, funding for the project was supposed to be done through bonds, federal funds and private investment. However, the money from private investment never really materialized and the cost of the entire project skyrocketed at every turn.
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Perhaps CA could use the tunnels as Sanctuary Tunnels?....Doubt they'll get used for anything else this century.... :oyvey
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It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
Edited by lucash, May 1 2018, 09:26 PM.
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lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
Edited by Drudge X, May 1 2018, 09:41 PM.
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
No real problem....They'll just do what's normal....Raise state taxes.... :box:
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lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
It only works in Japan because that country prohibits mass immigration.
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May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
See, now I know you're full of s**t if you're saying something like that.

I'm just going to leave the following two things for you to read up on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail


"...a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is detrimental...having lost the will..to demand...good..." - Rachel Carson
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May 1 2018, 09:46 PM
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May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
No real problem....They'll just do what's normal....Raise state taxes.... :box:
Californians don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
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It’s worth adding that a bullet train is being built in Texas for a fraction of CA’s costs.

And without these delays
Edited by Harambe4Trump, May 1 2018, 09:50 PM.
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May 1 2018, 09:49 PM
The Inquisitor
May 1 2018, 09:46 PM
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lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
No real problem....They'll just do what's normal....Raise state taxes.... :box:
Californians don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
:lol:

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"...a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is detrimental...having lost the will..to demand...good..." - Rachel Carson
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lucash
May 1 2018, 09:49 PM
Drudge X
May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
See, now I know you're full of s**t if you're saying something like that.

I'm just going to leave the following two things for you to read up on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail


Facts are inconvenient to leftists.
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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May 1 2018, 09:54 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:49 PM
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May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
See, now I know you're full of s**t if you're saying something like that.

I'm just going to leave the following two things for you to read up on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail


Facts are inconvenient to leftists.
What facts do you have Drudge?

See my friend, my *actual* facts refute your underlying claim that it is (only) being built in sparsely populated areas. Either you're being intentionally obtuse, or you're swell at rivaling Forrest Gump. The purpose of a HSP isn't to necessarily serve ALL places along the route, but to provide a quick means to get to and from in the area, and often what happens is there are spoke like routes that run off the main line. The line itself DOES actually cover those places you mentioned - you're just not listening - as it goes through the state of california.

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lucash
May 1 2018, 09:59 PM
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May 1 2018, 09:54 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:49 PM
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May 1 2018, 09:40 PM
lucash
May 1 2018, 09:26 PM
It happens with massive projects like this (companies too). I just hope it works out, because it would be a major boon economically with the ability for commute to and from work on it. Just look at Japan's system as an example of how it can work well.
This isn't Japan. CA population is concentrated in major cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The train is being built in sparsely populated area. CA has 5 major airports and all strategically located in dense populated areas.

Leftists love to lecture other about too big to fail but refused to acknowledge flushing more than $100 billion in the toilet.
See, now I know you're full of s**t if you're saying something like that.

I'm just going to leave the following two things for you to read up on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail


Facts are inconvenient to leftists.
What facts do you have Drudge?

See my friend, my *actual* facts refute your underlying claim that it is (only) being built in sparsely populated areas. Either you're being intentionally obtuse, or you're swell at rivaling Forrest Gump. The purpose of a HSP isn't to necessarily serve ALL places along the route, but to provide a quick means to get to and from in the area, and often what happens is there are spoke like routes that run off the main line. The line itself DOES actually cover those places you mentioned - you're just not listening - as it goes through the state of california.

:oyvey
Long stretch is being in sparsely populated area.
CA has 5 major airports
Airports are in densly populated area

Where are the lies?
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https://www.texascentral.com/2018/02/01/the-texas-bullet-train-vs-california-high-speed-rail/

Texas is doing HSR right.
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Texas Vs CA

California
• 520 Mile Length (Phase 1)

• $64 billion estimated costs
• Led by state-funded authority
• Funded by government grants
• Risk borne by taxpayers

Texas
240 Mile Length

$12 billion estimated civil
infrastructure cost
Led by entrepreneurs
100% investor-owned
Risk borne by investors and lenders
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Funny. Here they call it a "boondoggle".
But in Europe, China, Japan and everywhere else it's called progress.

See, "progress" in Amarrika is occupying Iraq and half the Middle East for their oil and selling billions in arms to Saudi Arabia,
or deregulating the fossil fuel industry so they can pollute our air and water with impunity.


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May 1 2018, 11:19 PM
Funny. Here they call it a "boondoggle".
But in Europe, China, Japan and everywhere else it's called progress.

See, "progress" in Amarrika is occupying Iraq and half the Middle East for their oil and selling billions in arms to Saudi Arabia,
or deregulating the fossil fuel industry so they can pollute our air and water with impunity.


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At a $price$
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LA can convert the underground railroad tunnel into a miles long homeless shelter.............. :dunno:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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May 1 2018, 11:53 PM
_g R_
May 1 2018, 11:19 PM
Funny. Here they call it a "boondoggle".
But in Europe, China, Japan and everywhere else it's called progress.

See, "progress" in Amarrika is occupying Iraq and half the Middle East for their oil and selling billions in arms to Saudi Arabia,
or deregulating the fossil fuel industry so they can pollute our air and water with impunity.


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At a $price$
You don't see the analogy ? We spend our money on wars, while they're building their infrastrcture for a fraction of what we're wasting in the Middle East.

The USA has 900 military bases in 138 countries.
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