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California bullet train cost jumps another 20% to 77 billion dollars
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:01 pm
Was 64 billion.
boondoggle
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California’s contentious bullet train project will cost $77 billion, a 20 percent spike from estimates two years ago, according to a report released on Friday.
The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority revealed the price tag and a delayed timeline in a biennial project update. The 800-mile Los Angeles-to-San Francisco network is now scheduled to open in 2033, four years later than expected.
Republican state lawmakers and taxpayer advocates seized on the report. Some said it’s time to stop funding the rail project, which was approved by voters in 2008 but has experienced repeated cost overruns and delays.
“Every dollar spent on the high-speed rail project at this point is a wasted transportation dollar. Everything that they’ve promised about the high-speed rail project has turned out to be absolutely untrue,” Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, told Capital Public Radio.
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Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:05 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Who could have possibly seen that coming?
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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California bullet train cost jumps another 20% to 77 billion dollars
Damn, when you are 10% of the F35, you know it's a boondoggle!
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I am shocked there is gambling in this establishment!
Your winnings, sir.
Thank you.
Your winnings, sir.
Thank you.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:06 pm to Zach
More incentive than ever for creating new high-speed, home-on-wheels for illegals. "The Sanctuary Express". 
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
its to pay for the extra seating for the new illegals coming in every day
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Taking planes really that much of an inconvenience? 
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The 800-mile Los Angeles-to-San Francisco network is now scheduled to open in 2033, four years later than expected.
Will there be anyome but hippies and homeless left in San Francisco once this is complete?
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:10 pm to Zach
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Who could have possibly seen that coming?
The cost is one thing. The 2033 completion date is absurd. That's still 15 years out. It has the potential to be a completely obsolete form of transportation by then
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The 800-mile Los Angeles-to-San Francisco network is now scheduled to open in 2033,
And at anytime, a major earthquake could occur and push that out even further. Sheesh, what a shite hole.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:14 pm to Powerman
The first leg is 40% over budget and won’t finish for another 3 years. $77B will become $100B with the quickness for the overall program
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:27 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Gov Brown
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:30 pm to keakar
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:31 pm to jamboybarry
Once a project crests 25% over initial budget and you haven't even completed the first phase, it's time to fire the project manager.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:32 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Imagine how bad this would be in Louisiana
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:34 pm to Powerman
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The cost is one thing. The 2033 completion date is absurd. That's still 15 years out. It has the potential to be a completely obsolete form of transportation by then
I doubt high speed rail infrastructure will be obsolete in the next 60 years....but 15 years for completion is bullshite.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:37 pm to member12
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I doubt high speed rail infrastructure will be obsolete in the next 60 years....but 15 years for completion is bullshite.
Well the thing is will transportation even be that necessary at all for most people?
Society 15 years from now may require much less transportation. Can the cost of this really be justified to the people of California?
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
California has a surplus now, they should be able swing it.
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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California’s contentious bullet train project will cost $77 billion, a 20 percent spike from estimates two years ago,
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800-mile Los Angeles-to-San Francisco network is now scheduled to open in 2033,
Any bets as to how many times the cost estimate is going to jump in the next 15 years?
Posted on 3/11/18 at 3:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That's a lot of money, to spend on what will eventually be, just another thing for people to literally shite on, in California.
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