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Tag: Proposition 1A

Pres. Trump to Investigate California’s High-Speed Rail Scheme: ‘Worst Managed Project I’ve Seen’

February 5, 2025   10:21 amFebruary 5, 2025   10:21 am
With President Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he will be launching an investigation into the high cost of California High Speed Rail fulfilling a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promise made late last year, many are celebrating. Not the Fresno...
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30 Miles of Tunnels Proposed for High Speed Rail: Can You Dig It?

June 29, 2024   2:00 pmJune 29, 2024   2:01 pm
The consistently accurate and forward looking board of the California High Speed Rail Authority has decided that it is a good idea to dig 30 miles of tunnels to connect Burbank to Palmdale. The purely political zig-zag to include Palmdale...
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High Stealth Rail: Where Did the Rest of It Go?

March 31, 2024   2:47 amMarch 31, 2024   8:34 am
In 2008 voters passed Proposition 1A, directing the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) to construct an electrified 494-mile-long rail system connecting the mega regions of Los Angeles and San Francisco to the growing cities of the Central Valley. This is...
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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What Else California Could Have Done With the High-Speed Rail Funds

July 25, 2022   2:50 amJuly 24, 2022   7:39 pm
First things first, let’s set some parameters for this article. One – California’s High Speed Rail network is not going to be built. At this point, that’s a given. Two – Even it were to be built and managed to hit...
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