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| Calif will abandon LA to SF HSR but complete Bakersfield to Merced |
| 2019-02-13 |
| SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) ‐ Governor Gavin Newsom dropped a bombshell early in his State of the State address Tuesday, announcing that California would abandon the state's plan for a high-speed rail connection between San Francisco and Los Angeles. During the address, he said that while he respects the vision of his predecessors Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, "…there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were." Newsom also said the project "…as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency." Newsom did say that the state would continue work to finish the high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield, dismissing critics who would call it a "train to nowhere" and citing the need to reduce air pollution in the Central Valley and tap into the region's economic potential. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #15 #13 - Prevailing wage = food and no "eating the peanut" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-13 21:58 |
| #14 Amazing what can happen when you shut the bean counters out of the meetings. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-13 21:37 |
| #13 I am amazed at how awfully bad they did this. The Chinese have thousands of miles of wonderful high speed railway. It's like going from A-B at half the speed of a jet, but no turbulence! It's a wonderful way to travel. No American Engineers could copy Chinese products? I doubt that. Maybe no government MBA's could manage a project? I think that's more likely. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-13 19:25 |
| #12 I went to San Francisco, once. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2019-02-13 15:29 |
| #11 Who wants to go to San Francisco anyway? Ick. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-13 12:47 |
| #10 That's not very "Green New Deal" of him. AOC unavailable for non-sequitur comment. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-02-13 09:55 |
| #9 Not to forget the terrorist threat of blowing up rail or sabotaging in a remote or not so remote area. I suspect the cost to monitor this land travel over air pretty spendy. |
| Posted by: Jan 2019-02-13 09:23 |
| #8 Rail subsidies accrue to the cost of land near the station. I'll bet the insiders bought land near those stations. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-02-13 08:50 |
| #7 “I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump,” Should be a "dog whistle" for the entire GOP caucus to claw the money back. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-13 07:34 |
| #6 Finishing this segment is a fig leaf for what a POS scam this always was. No ridership revenue, no private investment, just a make-work graft vanity for Brown |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-13 06:52 |
| #5 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/08/apropos-california-state-assembly-votes-to-make-communism-great-again/ |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-13 01:58 |
| #4 I ad to look that one up, seems something like this? Kaliphornia ? |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-13 01:57 |
| #3 "It robs unionized prison guards and Aztlan citizens of a future they already paid for with their votes..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-13 01:49 |
| #2 And, without a green path to either Bakersfield or Merced, from anywhere, and minimal traffic between the two cities, I'm not getting how a green path between the two makes things so much better. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-13 01:45 |
| #1 Merced is worth a visit, just because it's a gateway to Yosemite: nobody would actually stay in Merced. Bakersfield is worthwhile a few weeks each year (I'm being generous), if you are into flowers. There are only a few photographers into the flowers. So, basically, it's a HSR for photographers, who can generally find their own way to their destinations. Good investment. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-13 01:29 |