CA High-Speed Rail Cost Explodes to $231 Billion, From Original $33 Billion

[drudge X]

Newsom’s inner circle are very rich while they are laughing their asses off at those voted for him.

 

[Dante]

California is into democrat grift for decades. HSR is the golden goose of grift.

Yet the Trump Family and co., exceeds anything -- all in less than just a few years

 

[Dante]

Eminent domain doesn't exist anymore?

Missed the point yet again, eh?

and missed that Junior High School civics class:

"Eminent domain, derived from the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, allows federal, state, and local governments to seize private property for "public use" without the owner's consent, provided they offer "just compensation". This authority is limited by the requirement that the taking must serve public, rather than purely private, interests."

 

[TheGreatSatan]

An accounting is long past due.

Fake day cares, fake high speed rail projects.

All theft and treason

Democrats = traitors

 

[Cellblock2429]

Yet the Trump Family and co., exceeds anything -- all in less than just a few years

/—-/ What exactly did the Trumps do wrong?

 

[Dante]

/—-/ What exactly did the Trumps do wrong?

 

[Nostra]

Yet the Trump Family and co., exceeds anything -- all in less than just a few years

Link?

 

[Dante]

Link?

Try any news source

 

[Cellblock2429]

Try any news source

/—-/ You got nothing but false accusations, exaggerations and hyperbole.

 

[Nostra]

Try any news source

Well then, it should be easy to prove you aren’t a liar, liar.

GO!


.

 

[Nostra]

/—-/ You got nothing but false accusations, exaggerations and hyperbole.

Also, he lies.

 

[22lcidw]

The world is into

High-Speed Rail​

We need it

People on the planet have existences where they are just surviving. You guys waste so much. The value of a dollar means nothing. I tis just a method of getting what you want.

 

[Doc7505]

Nothing is the same. The days of Robert Moses, when the government could do what Trump favors "eminent domain takings" are over for projects like this. Comparing it all is like you dopes when you look for equivalencies on everything to excuse MAGA and Trump.

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California’s high-speed rail now ‘worst project in history’ — as insiders reveal unbelievable new cost​

High-Speed Rail project ripped after costs soar to $231B

State auditors criticized California’s high-speed rail project from San Francisco to Los Angeles, saying the costly project backed by Governor Gavin Newsom lacks a plan to finish.

nypost.com

28 Apr 2026 ~~ By Josh Koehn

Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations the estimated cost of completing Gavin Newsom’s fantasy train project has ballooned to a staggering $231 billion.
The latest cost revisions for the project — revealed during a Senate Transportation Committee meeting — left lawmakers fuming after the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office flagged numerous concerns.
State Sen. Tony Strickland, vice chair of the STC, said the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan continues to obscure true costs — and now he’s calling for the entire project to be scrapped.
This is despite the project having already burned through a cool $14 billion in taxpayer’s cash, mostly on land acquisition and construction in the Central Valley.
“I’ve been saying this for years now, but this is the most wasteful government project in probably world history,” Strickland told The Post. “It goes from a $33 billion projected estimate to the voters to go from LA to San Francisco. Now it’s $231 billion and climbing.”
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Roseville) called the California high-speed rail project “the worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history.”
“Thankfully, we have now cut off all further federal funding,” Kiley told The Post. “There is no viable path forward for this disastrous project. I fully expect the next California governor will have to recognize that reality, stop throwing good money after bad, and finally wind the project down.”
~Snip~
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who himself admitted in 2019 there was no path to get the train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, pushed the state to instead focus on a 171-mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield.
About 119 miles are under active construction with completion now targeted for 2032.
In Fresno, locals call the project’s discarded materials to lay track “Stonehenge.”


Commentary:
Amongst other things, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which has been used in numerous lawsuits against the project. These regulations require thorough environmental reviews, which have contributed to the project's delays and extended timeline and increased costs.
Its also become apparent that Democrats use these programs to siphon off and launder money to their campaigns. How else can you explain how they keep getting elected despite their historic incompetence duplicity and hypocrisy.
The money for the project went somewhere. How many people were paid for “Environmental Studies”?
Fraud running rampant? Also, Caltrans and their contractor Granite Construction, for our freeway systems and bridge repairs.
Is this bad enough for Democrat majority legislature in Sacramento to impeach the governor?

 

[toobfreak]

CA High-Speed Rail Cost Explodes to $231 Billion, From Original $33 Billion​

That is a cost overrun of exactly 700%. Now keep in mind the thing isn't even built yet. But this is not so much a reflection of inflationary construction costs as much as most of the overrun actually goes to feed the leftwing bureaucratic red tape machine where you must justify the jobs of thousands of idiots by placating them much as store grocers used to have to pay the local mob for protection otherwise they got ran out of business.

In my estimation, there is at least a 50% chance the thing never gets built at any cost, but if they do, it'll be more like a 1,000% cost overrun by then. And it will be plagued by nothing but breakdowns and constant problems.