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2018-03-01 Home Front: Politix

Browndoggle Update: New CA bullet train business plan will show higher costs

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Posted by Frank G 2018-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 $89 million a mile. Who says California isn’t leading the nation
....in corruption and stupidity! YCMTSU.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-03-01 00:32|| 2018-03-01 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The whole state is a train wreck.

Posted by newc 2018-03-01 00:47|| 2018-03-01 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 After taking every tax payer dime they can they will end up selling it to China for nothing.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-03-01 00:55|| 2018-03-01 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 unfortunately very true.

Posted by Dale 2018-03-01 08:43|| 2018-03-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect it's so badly designed that China wouldn't want to have anything to do with it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-03-01 08:48|| 2018-03-01 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Prediction:

They will spend almost a hundred billion, bankrupting the state before the project is cancelled.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-01 09:11|| 2018-03-01 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Darth, don't worry. As long as Nancy Pelosi is in charge, the Federal government will be there to bail them out.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-01 09:58|| 2018-03-01 09:58|| Front Page Top

#8 CF, scrap is always the option.

Posted by AlanC 2018-03-01 10:01|| 2018-03-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Just like the bridge to nowhere.

What is the business model really?

Take two hours to get from the central valley to the Bay Area? Have to take shuttle buses from the end of the line into town? Have to pay $200 or $300 one way for a ticket? When you can fly from Ontario, Long Beach, Los Angeles or Burbank for $300 round trip?

The only way this think becomes viable economically is for California to ban commuter flights between LA and SFO...of course given the mind set of these guys, banning plastic straws and grocery bags, they might try it.

Who voted for this damn thing? Oops I forgot about the 5,000,000 illegals and dead that will vote for anything Democratic.

Talk about a scandal. I wonder who is benefiting and what the end game is on this?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-01 10:16|| 2018-03-01 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 The way to do this properly would have been to build it above the California Aquaduct where they don't have to buy the land and deal with environmental reports.

I suspect the test areas in central california are being built on land owned by Democrat relatives and such.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-01 10:48|| 2018-03-01 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I suspect the test areas in central california are being built on land owned by Democrat relatives and such.

By relatives and husbands of democrats.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-03-01 11:34|| 2018-03-01 11:34|| Front Page Top

#12 it may all be for the best

once the first high speed trains from Bakersfield to Fresno start and ridership is only 30% of what was forecast, it may end the obsession with is essentially a 19th century technology on steroids

of course it will cost $10B to do this but that may save the rest of the country hundreds of billions

Posted by lord garth 2018-03-01 11:53|| 2018-03-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#13 but that may save the rest of the country hundreds of billions

You are of course assuming pols learn from history. Sadly the only thing they may learn is 'My Husband/Wife can make millions on this contract!'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-03-01 12:02|| 2018-03-01 12:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Lord Garth, what would they anticipate in ridership between Bakersfield and Fresno?

30% of nothing is still nothing.

Posted by Heriberto Ulung8215 2018-03-01 12:20|| 2018-03-01 12:20|| Front Page Top

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