Tag: High Speed Rail
California High Speed Rail Authority Announces Over 13,000 Jobs Have Been Created
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) announced on Tuesday that over 13,000 construction jobs have now been created for the project, with a majority of them in the Central Valley. According to the CHSRA, 4,222 jobs alone have been created...
California High-Speed Rail Says Another $100 Billion Is Needed To Link San Francisco And Los Angeles
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...
Ringside: California’s Dubious Megaprojects
It would be inaccurate to suggest that California’s state Legislature can no longer think big. They can, and as such they are carrying on a tradition that two generations ago gave us the best universities in the world, expressways and...
About Next Year… Through a Glass Darkly…
Instead of About Last Year, we thought the literal turning of the page on 2023 called for a look forward to 2024. 2023 was good for some, not good for others, just like any year ever. But it was so...
Reparations, Bullet Train, 64% State Spending Increase: California’s Democrats Choose Power Over the People
California’s Democrat super-majority Legislature and governor are moving full-steam ahead with reparations for black descendants of slaves, high speed rail, and have increased spending a staggering 64% since Gavin Newsom was elected in 2019. But not on anything to make...
Green Train, But No Green Money
When the bond was passed 1100 years ago to create California’s high speed rail project/grifty thingy/whatever, voters were told a number of things like where it would go, when it would be done, and how much it would cost. ...