Biden to give a billion dollars for a bullet train in California

[Flash]

Looks like Joe Dufus is being stupid again. Daily occurrence. Sometimes more than once in a day.

Giving a billion dollars of our money for a project that was uneconomical for private enterprise to construct.

Why should taxpayers in Florida or any other state have their money stolen by the government to build something like this?

I wonder how much will be directly funneled into Nancy and Diane’s husband’s construction companies?

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train ​

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government has reached an agreement to restore nearly $1 billion in funding for California’s troubled bullet train, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.

The U.S. Department of Transportation finalized settlement negotiations to restore the money for the high-speed rail project that was revoked by the Trump administration in 2019, Newsom said Thursday night.


The restoration of $929 million in grant funding “will continue to spur job creation, advance the project and move the state one step closer to getting trains running in California as soon as possible,” Newsom said in a statement.

 

[wamose]

Just what California needs, another bullet train that doesn't work.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There is no bullet train in California. There never was a train. There will never be a train. It is a slush fund with a really big appetite.

 

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[MarathonMike]

The California "bullet train" is a monument to Liberal idiocy. 1 Billion? HA!! The price tag so far is near 100 BILLION. The 1 billion is a drop in the bottomless bucket. The final price tag for that nightmare will be closer to 200 billion than 100 billion..

California’s $100 Billion Nightmare High-Speed Rail Project

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has caused a fiscal nightmare for the state.

www.cagw.org

 

[Flash]

The California "bullet train" is a monument to Liberal idiocy. 1 Billion? HA!! The price tag so far is near 100 BILLION. The 1 billion is a drop in the bottomless bucket. The final price tag for that nightmare will be closer to 200 billion than 100 billion..

California’s $100 Billion Nightmare High-Speed Rail Project

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has caused a fiscal nightmare for the state.

www.cagw.org

...and a lot of Democrat donors are going to make a pretty penny off of the taxpayer's money.

 

[Obiwan]

So Biden's solution to corruption is to throw money at it???

Is he getting his 10% cut????

California’s top bullet train consultant is suspended amid a state ethics review

The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned.

www.latimes.com

JUNE 4, 2019 7 AM PT
The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned.

Roy Hill, deputy chief operating officer for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and a senior executive at the lead consulting firm WSP, signed a $51-million change order for the construction team led by the Spanish firm Dragados. It happened in the same year he may have owned more than $100,000 of stock in Jacobs Engineering, which is part of the Dragados team, records show.

Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno), a longtime critic of the rail project, requested the state Fair Political Practices Commission last week to launch an investigation into Hill’s actions and holdings. On Monday afternoon, WSP suspended Hill at the direction of the rail authority, pending the outcome of the FPPC review , according to WSP and rail authority officials. The rail authority also sent an internal email about the suspension to the agency’s staff.

On Tuesday, the rail authority began an internal assessment of Hill’s actions as well. The FPPC has up to 28 days to decide whether to launch a formal investigation.

The FPPC review could be another setback to the rail system, coming soon after Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged greater transparency for the project and installed his political ally Lenny Mendonca as chairman of the rail authority board.

“The authority takes conflict-of-interest concerns very seriously and will work closely with the FPPC on the allegations in question,” agency spokeswoman Annie Parker said.

Denise Turner Roth, chief development officer for WSP USA, said in a statement: “We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards. We take these allegations seriously, and will cooperate fully with the investigation. Mr. Hill has been temporarily suspended while this matter is reviewed.”

Patterson, who asked for the probe, requested financial disclosure forms of consultants working on the project after The Times published an article about the project’s over-reliance on consultants.

“This calls into question just how deep and just how corrupt this project has become,” Patterson said. “My office has heard from former High-Speed Rail Authority employees and even former contractors who are disgusted by what they believe is corrupt behavior. Unfortunately, the High-Speed Rail Authority doesn’t do the right thing until they’re caught red-handed.”

 

[Flash]

So Biden's solution to corruption is to throw money at it???

Is he getting his 10% cut????

California’s top bullet train consultant is suspended amid a state ethics review

The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned.

www.latimes.com

JUNE 4, 2019 7 AM PT
The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned.

Roy Hill, deputy chief operating officer for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and a senior executive at the lead consulting firm WSP, signed a $51-million change order for the construction team led by the Spanish firm Dragados. It happened in the same year he may have owned more than $100,000 of stock in Jacobs Engineering, which is part of the Dragados team, records show.

Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno), a longtime critic of the rail project, requested the state Fair Political Practices Commission last week to launch an investigation into Hill’s actions and holdings. On Monday afternoon, WSP suspended Hill at the direction of the rail authority, pending the outcome of the FPPC review , according to WSP and rail authority officials. The rail authority also sent an internal email about the suspension to the agency’s staff.

On Tuesday, the rail authority began an internal assessment of Hill’s actions as well. The FPPC has up to 28 days to decide whether to launch a formal investigation.

The FPPC review could be another setback to the rail system, coming soon after Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged greater transparency for the project and installed his political ally Lenny Mendonca as chairman of the rail authority board.

“The authority takes conflict-of-interest concerns very seriously and will work closely with the FPPC on the allegations in question,” agency spokeswoman Annie Parker said.

Denise Turner Roth, chief development officer for WSP USA, said in a statement: “We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards. We take these allegations seriously, and will cooperate fully with the investigation. Mr. Hill has been temporarily suspended while this matter is reviewed.”

Patterson, who asked for the probe, requested financial disclosure forms of consultants working on the project after The Times published an article about the project’s over-reliance on consultants.

“This calls into question just how deep and just how corrupt this project has become,” Patterson said. “My office has heard from former High-Speed Rail Authority employees and even former contractors who are disgusted by what they believe is corrupt behavior. Unfortunately, the High-Speed Rail Authority doesn’t do the right thing until they’re caught red-handed.”

That is the Democrat's answer to everything. Throw money at it and the consequences be dammed.

 

[task0778]

The restoration of $929 million in grant funding “will continue to spur job creation, advance the project and move the state one step closer to getting trains running in California as soon as possible,” Newsom said in a statement.

What we have here is pure, unadulterated political bullshit. Total pork. I'm wondering what else is being funded that we don't now about yet.

 

[Polishprince]

Looks like Joe Dufus is being stupid again. Daily occurrence. Sometimes more than once in a day.

Giving a billion dollars of our money for a project that was uneconomical for private enterprise to construct.

Why should taxpayers in Florida or any other state have their money stolen by the government to build something like this?

I wonder how much will be directly funneled into Nancy and Diane’s husband’s construction companies?

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train ​

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government has reached an agreement to restore nearly $1 billion in funding for California’s troubled bullet train, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.

The U.S. Department of Transportation finalized settlement negotiations to restore the money for the high-speed rail project that was revoked by the Trump administration in 2019, Newsom said Thursday night.


The restoration of $929 million in grant funding “will continue to spur job creation, advance the project and move the state one step closer to getting trains running in California as soon as possible,” Newsom said in a statement.

I don't understand the liberal fascination with 19th century technology like trains.

Ohio cancelled the project their which would have link 4 of the state's super cities, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland. Seemed to be an idea even a doofus like John Kasich could figure out.

 

[Polishprince]

There is no bullet train in California. There never was a train. There will never be a train. It is a slush fund with a really big appetite.

I disagree. I think they will complete it, although not all the way from SF to LA.

Probably just from Merced to Bakersfield.

 

[Flash]

Looks like Joe Dufus is being stupid again. Daily occurrence. Sometimes more than once in a day.

Giving a billion dollars of our money for a project that was uneconomical for private enterprise to construct.

Why should taxpayers in Florida or any other state have their money stolen by the government to build something like this?

I wonder how much will be directly funneled into Nancy and Diane’s husband’s construction companies?

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train

Feds will restore $1B for California’s troubled bullet train ​

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government has reached an agreement to restore nearly $1 billion in funding for California’s troubled bullet train, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.

The U.S. Department of Transportation finalized settlement negotiations to restore the money for the high-speed rail project that was revoked by the Trump administration in 2019, Newsom said Thursday night.


The restoration of $929 million in grant funding “will continue to spur job creation, advance the project and move the state one step closer to getting trains running in California as soon as possible,” Newsom said in a statement.

I don't understand the liberal fascination with 19th century technology like trains.

Ohio cancelled the project their which would have link 4 of the state's super cities, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland. Seemed to be an idea even a doofus like John Kasich could figure out.

It is terrible technology that is really not useful.

If something like this is not economical to build without government subsidies then that is a great indication that it is a terrible investment for the taxpayers.

I suspect that money is nothing more payoffs to donors. It will probably be full of requirements like it the money has to go to minority firms like in Maxine Water's district.

I would say that its only use would be to get Illegals to the welfare office but it will not even good for that.

Total waste of money.

Typical for the shit we are getting out of the Dufus administration.

Anybody that voted for Joe Dufus and then ignored the fact he stole the election is a moron and this is a great example of what they got for their stupidity.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There is no bullet train in California. There never was a train. There will never be a train. It is a slush fund with a really big appetite.

I disagree. I think they will complete it, although not all the way from SF to LA.

Probably just from Merced to Bakersfield.

When will they start it?

 

[wamose]

There is no bullet train in California. There never was a train. There will never be a train. It is a slush fund with a really big appetite.

I disagree. I think they will complete it, although not all the way from SF to LA.

Probably just from Merced to Bakersfield.

Merced vs Bakersfield sounds like a good HS wrestling matchup 10 years ago.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Public Transportation is where criminals and their victims rendezvous

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

You can be sure that the dirty corrupt Democrat Poliricians are getting kick-backs

 

[Concerned American]

Just what California needs, another bullet train that doesn't work.

They've been pushing this boondoggle for over 10 years--a lot of tax paying Californians said enough and left the state. So Newsom has gone hat in hand to Biden for more US taxpayer money. This after Piglosi gave a bundle of covid relief $$ to extend BART to the Silicon Valley--like those commie high tech companies can't pay for their own rail extension. Working people from CA have had enough.
According to new data released today by the state Department of Finance, California's population declined by 182,083 people in 2020. That's the first time that annual statistic has come with a minus sign since 1900, when the department began collecting these estimates.

CA's Population Shrank In 2020, But Don't Call It An Exodus

The number of Californians declined in 2020 for the first year since at least 1900. But state officials blame the pandemic.

patch.com

 

[Concerned American]

There is no bullet train in California. There never was a train. There will never be a train. It is a slush fund with a really big appetite.

I disagree. I think they will complete it, although not all the way from SF to LA.

Probably just from Merced to Bakersfield.

That's why they call it the train to nowhere.

 

[bendog]

Well, theoretically, high speed rail between .... say Seattle and SD .... makes sense. And even more so between DC and Bahstahn. But I always wondered how the rails could be built to cross the hundreds of roads. And the cost would have to be essentially amortized over decades .... like airports.

 

[Concerned American]

Well, theoretically, high speed rail between .... say Seattle and SD .... makes sense. And even more so between DC and Bahstahn. But I always wondered how the rails could be built to cross the hundreds of roads. And the cost would have to be essentially amortized over decades .... like airports.

Or like Amtrak that has been a money burner since its inception. The CA bullet train is a tremendous waste of taxpayer $$$. The majority of which will end up in democrats pockets.