Thursday, February 11, 2021
They're still beating that dead horse?
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — California is again pushing back the deadline and raising the cost for its high-speed rail project, this time asking the Biden administration for a one-year extension on completing construction on a section of track in the Central Valley.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Late and over budget. Typical government goals.
ReplyDeleteAnd when it's finished, nobody will ride it.
Delete$13.8 billion
ReplyDeleteSame as the UK"government"s HS2 vanity project. Billions wasted, endless square miles of landscape devastated, all to take ten minutes off the rail journey from London(natch!) to Birmingham. Spending on the rest of the network? As little as they can get away with.
ReplyDeleteBrian P. Kelly, Executive Director, High Speed Rail Authority
ReplyDeleteTotal 2019 pay and benefits - $542,199.27
Guess which political party he supports and contributes to.
That's really what this is all about. It's really what every state project and agency is about.
He's a good caporegime; he runs his racket, and he kicks up to the bosses.
DeleteIt's the train to nowhere that no one wants or needs.
ReplyDeleteThey purchase cheap land through a shell company, then vote a public works project through it.
ReplyDeleteTurn around and sell the right of way at ten times the purchase price.
Frank Fisher
Years back Ohio wanted to do the high speed rail thing. Multiple millions upon millions of dollars for a train that went 38 miles an hour, to a station that was not close to anything.
ReplyDelete