California High Speed Rail – Page 5

California High-Speed Rail Says Another $100 Billion Is Needed To Link San Francisco And Los Angeles

March 17, 2024 10:49 amMarch 18, 2024 6:15 am

California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) officials said that another $100 billion would be needed to complete the high speed rail network between San Francisco and Los Angeles at a state Senate Transportation Committee hearing on Tuesday, raising the total estimated...

Biden Tosses in His Two Percent’s Worth

December 6, 2023 5:54 pmDecember 6, 2023 5:54 pm

The Biden administration has tossed a $3.1 billion lifeline to never ending slow speed train wreck that is California’s LA to SF high speed rail project. “California is delivering on the first 220-mph, electric high-speed rail project in the nation,”...

California’s High Speed Swindle

July 25, 2023 2:50 amJuly 26, 2023 6:50 am

“If it is built, California’s High-Speed Rail would be the largest public works project in state history. That fact alone appears to be intoxicating to state officials, in a perpetual quest to have California be the first state to do...

‘Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground’ – A Comparative Study

December 14, 2022 2:45 amDecember 13, 2022 8:54 pm

So “Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground” is from David Letterman’s “Top 10 Courses Taken by Basketball Players at UNLV” from decades ago about basketball players take. That nasty great aunt you haven’t talked to in years has finally...

California High Speed Rail: Low Speed Fail

December 11, 2022 2:30 amDecember 12, 2022 2:10 pm

Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland. Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and more expensive and further behind schedule and more incomprehensible...

CA High-Speed Rail Authority Awards $35 Million Stations Design Contract

October 21, 2022 11:47 amOctober 21, 2022 2:19 pm

The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors approved a $35 million design and support services contract for four Central Valley stations on Thursday to Foster + Partners and Arup (F+P Arup), inflating the $113 billion high-speed rail budget even...

California High-Speed Rail Board Approves Construction of Lines into Bakersfield, Merced

August 18, 2022 2:30 amAugust 17, 2022 9:02 pm

The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors announced on Wednesday that they approved the continued construction of the network into both Merced and Bakersfield. Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, costs of the high speed rail system...