02-26-2019, 05:17 PM
A project sold to the voters as a 6 billion dollar project, that has ballooned to more than $90 BILLION? You can take it, and everyone who pushed it, out behind the barn and put a bullet in their head.
If we had the capability to build large infrastructure projects in this country without a 500% "Bureaucracy tax", I would have been all for it. Seriously. But as soon as the very FIRST budget "estimate" after the Ballot Proposition more than DOUBLED the budget, I knew it was going to skyrocket from there....
Can I take it then that you're not real torn up about Governor Newsom finally canceling the multi-billion dollar pork-barrel boondoggle known as the LA-SF High Speed Railway?:devil:
If we had the capability to build large infrastructure projects in this country without a 500% "Bureaucracy tax", I would have been all for it. Seriously. But as soon as the very FIRST budget "estimate" after the Ballot Proposition more than DOUBLED the budget, I knew it was going to skyrocket from there....
Thrift Store Scott wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
Passenger rail service is an afterthought in this country. They make money by shipping cargo, and maintain passenger service as a loss-leading "lip service" to keep their subsidies coming in.
Except for a few corridors, no one wants to spend 3x longer on a train, when they could take a plane, or drive. In the Western U.S. especially, there is ZERO advantage to a train vs flying or driving.
Can I take it then that you're not real torn up about Governor Newsom finally canceling the multi-billion dollar pork-barrel boondoggle known as the LA-SF High Speed Railway?:devil: