California Denies Audit of Controversial Bullet Train to Nowhere

[Weatherman2020]

Corruption.


A request for an emergency audit of the $64-billion California bullet train project was turned down Monday by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, the Torrance Democrat who chairs the joint audit committee.

In a letter to Assemblyman Jim Patterson (D-Fresno), who requested the audit, Muratsuchi said the request would deny the legislature and public an opportunity to review and discuss the issue in public.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-audit-20171127-story.html

 

[WillMunny]

That bullet train is the most idiotic transportation idea since Howard Hughes' "spruce goose" (at least that guy was batshit insane, what's Brown's excuse). It runs between SF and LA, competing with the most heavily trafficked air route in the world. Now why would someone spend an arm & leg (that's what the bullet train would charge to cover it's overhead and all the other unexpected little expenses) to travel that distance in 3 hours, when you can pay only $80 and fly there in 45 minutes?

Long-distance passenger trains will NEVER make money in America, the population density is too low and the distances are too gargantuan. Amtrak has always been a money-loser since it formed in the '70s. The airline industry has the massive hegemony over interstate passenger travel in this country.