O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Approximately USD $77B....or the equivalent of around 200,000,000 round-trip tickets between NorCal and SoCal on Southwest Airlines.

No cronyism here....none at all.

Whenever this happens as it always does - here in Toronto Union station is way above budget - I comfort myself with the knowledge that construction projects provide jobs for men, not weak, paper-pushing women. Government provides too many chick-centric jobs that should not even exist. It is good to see men pick up some of the graft as well.

Well, they scrubbed my comment at the LST site yesterday on this.

That’s a fair chunk of change to move the illegals from Lost Angeles to Sodom and Gomorrah when a bunch of second hand chicken buses will do.

Pick one:

1. Math is hard
2. Everything “green” is built on lies, gawndammmmned lies, and fraudulent cost estimates

http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-adv-bullet-fares-20150510-story.html

“The CA high speed tain fares will be the cheapest in the world”

Ontario: "We have the largest sub-sovereign debt in the world"

California: "Hold my beer"

you people are terrible. LOL !!!
thanks for the laugh at the expense of the greens.
er, wait, who is paying the 98 Billion with 'B'?

Invite the Chinese to bid on the project. Judging what I saw from Beijing to Hong Kong the Chinese are master builders. Incredible rail, road and river projects completed everywhere in really short time frames. Building 8 subways in Shanghai in 5 years.

Judging what I saw from Beijing to Hong Kong the Chinese are master builders.

Yeah, aside from the bridge and rail collapses, high speed rail collisions, they are mile ahead of the North Koreans.

Follow the money. Who are the Democrat friends in the contracting business who are making probably three or four times the profit they would on a similar but non-government job?

The media is great at crying about money being wasted by governments on these projects,but never follows up and investigated who profits from it. Are they afraid of where an investigation might lead,or have the corruption of their heros exposed?

Where is Elon Musk and his Hyperloop? Musk and California are practically made for each other.

Isn't the California project what red tories and leftists point to anytime they say we need a high speed train between Calgary and Edmonton?

Of course I've never had my follow up question answered Why doesn't regular passenger trains run between Calgary and Edmonton anymore.

Note that the present Amtrak route along that same section of the Central Valley that runs from "Los Angeles" to "San Francisco" has a bus link at each end.

I took it once to visit my kid in the L.A. basin at UC...

You get on a bus and ride a few hours to the central valley train depot (That "bakersfield" area) then you get on a train that runs through the mostly empty central valley to Stockton where you change to a bus for a few more hours to the San Francisco Bay area.

Why?

Because all the land in the urban areas is covered in houses and businesses or already extant infrastructure. It can run $1 Million for a single home LOT (forget the structure). So putting a train right of way in place costs several $Million / 100 FEET before you do ANYTHING.

Cheaper to use a bus each end.

That's why this "high speed rail" is locally called "The Train To Nowhere".

You WILL take a 4 hour bus ride from L.A. to the start, and you WILL take another 4 hour bus ride from the end to San Francisco area. But no worries, for the 300 miles in the middle you will be done in 1 hour. After a brief hour wait for the train after you get off your bus...

IIRC, it was about 12 hours for my "train trip". I drive it in 6 hours... The "high speed rail" will cut about 2 hours out of that 12....

Note that the present Amtrak route along that same section of the Central Valley that runs from "Los Angeles" to "San Francisco" has a bus link at each end.

I took it once to visit my kid in the L.A. basin at UC...

You get on a bus and ride a few hours to the central valley train depot (That "bakersfield" area) then you get on a train that runs through the mostly empty central valley to Stockton where you change to a bus for a few more hours to the San Francisco Bay area.

Why?

Because all the land in the urban areas is covered in houses and businesses or already extant infrastructure. It can run $1 Million for a single home LOT (forget the structure). So putting a train right of way in place costs several $Million / 100 FEET before you do ANYTHING.

Cheaper to use a bus each end.

That's why this "high speed rail" is locally called "The Train To Nowhere".

You WILL take a 4 hour bus ride from L.A. to the start, and you WILL take another 4 hour bus ride from the end to San Francisco area. But no worries, for the 300 miles in the middle you will be done in 1 hour. After a brief hour wait for the train after you get off your bus...

IIRC, it was about 12 hours for my "train trip". I drive it in 6 hours... The "high speed rail" will cut about 2 hours out of that 12....