California to pull plug on billion-dollar bullet train, cites ballooning costs

[Baker Boy 1,477]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday he is pulling the plug on the state's massive high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco that was more than a decade behind schedule and billions in the red.

"Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address. "The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency."

CALIFORNIA BULLET TRAIN PROJECT ON TRACK TO BLOW THROUGH BILLIONS OF MORE DOLLARS 

Newsom added that while California has "the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield," "there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-to-pull-plug-on-billion-dollar-bullet-train-cites-ballooning-costs

 

Wasn’t this part of Obama’s Stimulus Pachage?

Another one bites the dust?

 

 

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,576]

Shhhhh.  They're running out of money. Don't tell anyone. If the word gets out that their socialist utopia isn't working the bad Orange man looks good.  

[Vikings4ever 496]

[kutulu 1,541]

That was fast.... Or woulda been.

[vuduchile 1,940]

2 minutes ago, kutulu said:

That was fast.... Or woulda been.

It’s too bad the project got derailed like that. Seems like they were on the right track.  

[DonS 3,063]

I'm sure AOC's GND won't have any issues. 

[kutulu 1,541]

3 minutes ago, vuduchile said:

It’s too bad the project got derailed like that. Seems like they were on the right track.  

It was a train wreck... Or woulda been

[Baker Boy 1,477]

Obama put $3.5 billion of federal taxpayer funds into it and Trump can’t get $5.7 billion for national security.

CA blew $77 billion

 

This so-called bullet train is a solution in search of a problem that is plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns and fiscal mismanagement,” San Diego Councilman Mark Kersey told Fox News in 2018, adding that the billions wasted on the project “could have been invested in our current infrastructure needs, such as water storage, flood control, highways and bridges.”

 

 

 

[DonS 3,063]

 

[sderk 1,040]

Maybe Cortez can jump in and save the economic day around this building of cheap railways. I'm thinking they can close LAX and SFO, and then the money that is currently spent there on flights and other services can be converted into tax hits on the people who can support the government to spend that money on government agendas and therefore that tax payer money can be used to be dumped into a pit of emptiness, and then we can keep alive a dream of trains that will never happen and businesses will fail and no one can travel aside from driving across country and etc.. etc...

Oh. And we can all just choose not to work under her new plan. Do tax dollars get pulled from those who choose not to work?

Go Cortez!

[Hardcore troubadour 12,576]

They haven't conducted themselves very well about this, and the taxpayer gets it right in the caboose.  

[5-Points 2,715]

2 hours ago, DonS said:

I'm sure AOC's GND won't have any issues. 

Support for AOC's GND will dry up PDQ when the real numbers come out. The POS is pretty much DOA.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Didn't we solve this last week?  Another great job guys. 

[frank 2,144]

 

[shorepatrol 1,735]

Apply the Green Retarded Deal in California , tear down all barriers on the mexican borders, build the wall around California. 

[Thornton Melon 542]

13 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

 

"Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address. "The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long...."

 

Well, at least it would have been respectful.

[Voltaire 4,552]

We had found such brilliant people to design and plan it. Who possibly could have predicted it would go over budget like this? Inconceivable.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Now imagine the cost of doing this to replace airplanes.

[supermike80 1,284]

This is absolutely horrible...Not lying..California should be ashamed of themselves.  I applaud them fro the attempt, because if we don't try then we have  nothing.  But $77 billion?  Thats just foolish.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,576]

And the kicker, the federal government (the rest of us) gave them 3.5 billion for this boondoggle, and they aren't giving it back. 

[frank 2,144]

Is there a chance the track could bend? 

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

5 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

This is absolutely horrible...Not lying..California should be ashamed of themselves.  I applaud them fro the attempt, because if we don't try then we have  nothing.  But $77 billion?  Thats just foolish.

The did try and now they have LESS than nothing. They wasted billions of Federal tax dollars and are swimming in debt. And before you applaud them, go look at the prior land owner(s) of the land this rail was projected to be built on. I'm sure someone close to a government official got paid on that.

[supermike80 1,284]

2 minutes ago, Filthy Fernadez said:

The did try and now they have LESS than nothing. They wasted billions of Federal tax dollars and are swimming in debt. And before you applaud them, go look at the prior land owner(s) of the land this rail was projected to be built on. I'm sure someone close to a government official got paid on that.

Oh please..of course someone got paid. That's how it works.  Feinstein's hubby is a huge construction entity in California.   I acknowledged that they wasted far too much $$ on this project.  What else do you want?

[TimmySmith 2,782]

More laundered billions.  You just know most of that dough is in the hands of contributors and politicians.  Time for a full investigation.

[RLLD 3,455]

Bullet train, was that some term they pulled from Kavanaugh's yearbook? Should someone be offended somewhere?

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

7 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

More laundered billions.  You just know most of that dough is in the hands of contributors and politicians.  Time for a full investigation.

This.

When they recover the billions from those criminals I believe it's enough to pay for the border wall between Mexico/California.

[RLLD 3,455]

18 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

More laundered billions.  You just know most of that dough is in the hands of contributors and politicians.  Time for a full investigation.

If you are suggesting there should be an investigation of the Dems here, then why are you such a racist/mysogynist/homophobe???

[12th Man 884]

1 hour ago, supermike80 said:

This is absolutely horrible...Not lying..California should be ashamed of themselves.  I applaud them fro the attempt, because if we don't try then we have  nothing.  But $77 billion?  Thats just foolish.

That is horrible!  Amirite?  

[Strike 3,941]

2 hours ago, supermike80 said:

This is absolutely horrible...Not lying..California should be ashamed of themselves.  I applaud them fro the attempt, because if we don't try then we have  nothing.  But $77 billion?  Thats just foolish.

Thing was doomed from the get go.  And people wonder why some of us don't trust the government with out hard earned money.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

It's amazing that in this day and age, when we know every contractor is out to butt fvck the customer, that there still exists a lack of oversight. Of course in certain instances they just don't care, because it's not their money. If you hire a contractor to do anything, assume that company is going to fvck you if you don't keep a close eye on them. 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,565]

well I hate more Newsom more than anyone

but hes already made 1 improvement for California, more than Moonbeam has done in 50 years

 

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

4 minutes ago, Strike said:

Thing was doomed from the get go.  And people wonder why some of us don't trust the government with out hard earned money.

Theres no penalty for misuse. The contractors who basically stole the money, nothing will happen to them. The people who didn't provide the proper oversight, nothing will happen to them either. 

[Strike 3,941]

Just now, Frozenbeernuts said:

Theres no penalty for misuse. The contractors who basically stole the money, nothing will happen to them. The people who didn't provide the proper oversight, nothing will happen to them either. 

Yeah.  They've been talking about how mismanaged it's been for almost the entire time since this thing was passed.  And nothing has changed.  It's idiotic.  Thank god I got the fock out of that cesspool of a state.

[TBayXXXVII 2,105]

3 hours ago, supermike80 said:

This is absolutely horrible...Not lying..California should be ashamed of themselves.  I applaud them fro the attempt, because if we don't try then we have  nothing.  But $77 billion?  Thats just foolish.

 

My biggest issue with Democrats is not that they try to do things, it's that when they're wrong, their first solution is "we need more money".  When that doesn't work... and it never does, their next solution is "we need more money".  After that doesn't work, their next solution is "we need more money".  When that doesn't work.........

[DonS 3,063]

1 minute ago, TBayXXXVII said:

 

My biggest issue with Democrats is not that they try to do things, it's that when they're wrong, their first solution is "we need more money".  When that doesn't work... and it never does, their next solution is "we need more money".  After that doesn't work, their next solution is "we need more money".  When that doesn't work.........

This is a spot on summary of how Seattle City Council approaches the "homeless crisis".  They need more money but there is no accountability on where the money goes and no metrics of how it's working. They also don't understand that allowing homeless to camp, sh1t, and do drugs with impunity only encourages more druggies to come here. 

As a bonus their solution to help solve the "homeless crisis" is to raise property taxes, which landlords of course pass on to renters in the form of higher rent, which causes an "affordable housing crisis", which causes SCC to add more property taxes to solve the "affordable housing crisis", which then gets passed down to renters in the form of higher rents, and so on and so on. 

Thankfully I only work in Seattle so I only have to watch out for the bums and not my property taxes. 

[Kanil 519]

19 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

"Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address. "The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency."

I'm gonna call bullshit.  There's 0% chance a politician from California said this.  This has to be made up, right?

[Mike Honcho 4,007]

19 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

California to pull plug on billion-dollar bullet train, cites ballooning costs

Is because it's cheaper to take a hot air balloon?  I think that would be a lot slower.   

[wiffleball 4,631]

This thing was doing just fine until them little queers from Parkland started protesting bullet trains.

[RLLD 3,455]

Democrats Mantra = we can tax our way out of this

Republican Mantra = giving people jobs will solve all their problems ( which disturbingly Obama used as the "fix" for angry muslims)

[jerryskids 5,165]

22 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Is because it's cheaper to take a hot air balloon?  I think that would be a lot slower.   

Maybe not in a polar vortex, although you'd probably die.  Of course you can only head east, so that's another limitation.