The little engine that could
May. 22nd, 2026 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cali4nickationDemocrats think California is the model.
Not because it's actually successful but
because it's a D+22 state that is able
to collect $10,000 per person in taxes
to distribute to their favored cronies.
Not because it's actually successful but
because it's a D+22 state that is able
to collect $10,000 per person in taxes
to distribute to their favored cronies.
"The high-speed rail project does not resemble what voters approved. The complete Los Angeles-to-San Francisco system voters were promised in 2008 was supposed to cost $33 billion, go over 200 miles per hour, and take riders from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a little over 2.5 hours by 2020.
It’s 2026, and nothing is running. Costs have increased 600%. The system is no longer promising a Japanese or European-style bullet train, but a blended system that would run at reduced speeds on freight rail tracks for long stretches. And the train will likely never reach Los Angeles or San Francisco. The rail authority says it is still more than six years away from even having its dubious Merced-to-Bakersfield train-to-nowhere operational.
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California Assembly Bill 1608 would allow the high-speed rail authority to withhold records from taxpayers that an inspector general believes would 'reveal weaknesses' that 'would pose a substantial and articulable risk to the project or to state operations if publicly disclosed.' The Assembly has already passed the troubling bill to reduce transparency into the rail project and sent it to the Senate."
В экономике распила и отката главное не победа а участие.
