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WestlinnDuck
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Geezus. And the dazzler voted for a dementia patient which is owned by the chicoms because he was the more fiscally responsible alternative to Trump.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-doubling-down-on-costly-bullet-train-to-nowhere
President Joe Biden’s administration announced last week that it had restored a $929 million grant for a high-speed rail project in California that has been marred by environmental lawsuits, delays, and cost overruns.
The money restored by the Biden administration was canceled by his predecessor, President Donald Trump, who pointed out that the project was a “disaster” due to the delays and ballooning costs. In an editorial, the Las Vegas Review-Journal compared the high-speed rail project to Boston’s Big Dig, a notoriously expensive boondoggle that took 25 years to complete at a cost of $22 billion, when it was originally proposed to taxpayers as taking 15 years to complete and costing just $2.8 billion in 1982.
California, the editorial board wrote, appears to be attempting to out-do Boston’s boondoggle.
“In the early aughts, the state’s political class bamboozled voters into approving a high-speed rail project intended to ultimately connect Los Angeles with San Francisco. Construction was supposed to be completed early this decade, and residents were assured that the shiny new ‘clean energy’ train could be theirs for the low, low price of $30 billion,” the editorial board wrote. “Instead, the project is more than a decade behind schedule and is now projected to cost $100 billion … and counting. Officials now hope they can complete a 171-mile stretch between Bakersfield and Merced by the end of the decade.”
The editorial board pointed out that Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao, called the high-speed rail project a “bait-and-switch” for taxpayers, as initial cost estimates, according to the editorial, “were proven to be a fantasy” and ridership projections were “not based on reality.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-doubling-down-on-costly-bullet-train-to-nowhere
President Joe Biden’s administration announced last week that it had restored a $929 million grant for a high-speed rail project in California that has been marred by environmental lawsuits, delays, and cost overruns.
The money restored by the Biden administration was canceled by his predecessor, President Donald Trump, who pointed out that the project was a “disaster” due to the delays and ballooning costs. In an editorial, the Las Vegas Review-Journal compared the high-speed rail project to Boston’s Big Dig, a notoriously expensive boondoggle that took 25 years to complete at a cost of $22 billion, when it was originally proposed to taxpayers as taking 15 years to complete and costing just $2.8 billion in 1982.
California, the editorial board wrote, appears to be attempting to out-do Boston’s boondoggle.
“In the early aughts, the state’s political class bamboozled voters into approving a high-speed rail project intended to ultimately connect Los Angeles with San Francisco. Construction was supposed to be completed early this decade, and residents were assured that the shiny new ‘clean energy’ train could be theirs for the low, low price of $30 billion,” the editorial board wrote. “Instead, the project is more than a decade behind schedule and is now projected to cost $100 billion … and counting. Officials now hope they can complete a 171-mile stretch between Bakersfield and Merced by the end of the decade.”
The editorial board pointed out that Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao, called the high-speed rail project a “bait-and-switch” for taxpayers, as initial cost estimates, according to the editorial, “were proven to be a fantasy” and ridership projections were “not based on reality.”
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The Big Train is going to run between nowhere and nowhere for 100 billion dollars