To put this into perspective, China’s high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.
This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.
Make it so.
I can think of three people in the US that has more money than that to their names.
100 billion ain’t shit no more. Quit telling us we aren’t worth a Bezos, or take it from Bezos so I don’t have to suffer under the hypocrisy.
I don’t think the money is the problem. For one thing, it shouldn’t cost $100 billion. The Kyushu bullet train was built in 2004 and cost $6 billion. It’s 159 miles long. The SF to LA train would be around 390 miles long, and yet would cost over 15x that of an equivalent Japanese train.
The problem is the private companies contracted for this thing don’t actually want to build trains, they want to make a profit. They make enough of a profit from scamming tax subsidies, so they never actually have to build the train.
Zeno’s California Rail Project. Its so fucking funny that “damn, this whole thing is shady af, look at all the grifts and crimes and cons involved!” was a B-plot in a True Detective season released in 2015 and they’re still getting away with it.
Are they making it one centimeter at a time?
one embezzlement at a time
One kickback at a time
Looks like this train only goes…
to Chinatown.
I guess all the grifter… i mean consultants gotta eat as well.
By 2030, and a trillion dollars later, they will have finally established a public-private partnership charging $700 per person to ride on the not-greyhound medium-speed shuttle bus between SF and LA!
It will be a solar powered bus so it’ll be green
except sadly this country’s inability to do anything other than burn 1 ton of carbon per human moved per mile is taking the entire world down with it
how much would it cost to bring back trotsky’s armored train instead?
joke country for silly clown people
Failed state
Its by design. When the 10 freeway in downtown LA got damaged in a fire and it was speculated that repairs would take months to reopen the freeway (for perspective the freeway does through the heart of DTLA and connects a lot of vital areas of the city with rachother)
They had it fixed in 5 days with enough political pressure.
They could have a series of high speed public transit all over the state if they wanted to, its not a question of resources since Los Angeles and California as a whole is a very very wealthy and resource rich state.
Oh, don’t let them make you believe for a second that they are actually incompetent. They’ve been dragging their feet for this, looking almost pleadingly at the California people to beg them to make them stop ever since they voted on it. Sure, high-speed rail projects unfortunately have a bad habit of going over-budget, but this is obvious weaponized incompetence.
: “Teehee! Oopsie-daisy, looks like we can’t do anything right, so quirky! Now never expect any project from us again. You’re driving a car and you’re gonna like it!”
Such a large discrepancy between Cali’s and China’s because someone’s skimming off the “top” aka: the whole damn pie
The Jakarta Bandung line took a lot longer than 4 months, still agree in general.
Are… Are they buying billionaires land by the square centimeter to run a railroad through?
I have written about CHSR before. This is just one niche issue in the project, but it’s an excellent example of how fundamentally broken California is.
Indonesia’s high speed rail system is called Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat ('Timesaving, Optimal Operation, Outstanding System), or, in short, WHOOSH
