(11-30-2024, 11:59 AM)WingerDinger Wrote: https://x.com/DOGE/status/18628838217980...1hvUw&s=19

Summary of California High Speed Rail Project:
-Originally projected (in 2008) to cost $33 billion; now projected to cost between $88.5 and $127.9 billion
-Estimated completion date was 2020; as of 2024, zero passengers have been transported and the majority has not even been fully designed
-Received $6.8 billion in federal funds
-Requesting $8 billion in additional federal funds

Sources:
hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/upl…

amp.fresnobee.com/news/local/hig…

Progressives get so enamored with high speed rail, but they don't realize that high speed rail can't function unless there is highly utilized low speed mass transit at both ends. 
Which means there has to be high density housing at both ends.
CalTrain and Bart and LA Metro are all under-utilized for this reason.  They are all treated as something for the poor to use only, because the housing options around them all have parking.  
If California ever changes their zoning to allow more high density housing around mass transit, and they actually build it, and people actually move in, and the trains start coming every 5 minutes instead of every 30 minutes, then and only then would high speed rail maybe start to make sense.
High speed rail was one of the dumbest ideas that Obama ever latched on to.  And he latched on to some doozies.

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