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Anonymous ID: b4a067 March 2, 2019, 9:54 a.m. No.5465173   🗄️.is 🔗kun

POTUS RE: MSM bosses - someday we’re going to have to find out WHY they want these things hidden…someday…

Anonymous ID: b4a067 March 2, 2019, 10:18 a.m. No.5465622   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5642

Bullet train went from peak California innovation to the project from hell- Feb 14, 2019

 

It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. The high-speed rail network would transform California — cleaner air, less congested freeways and airports, and more limited suburban sprawl with a whole new style of housing around rail stops.

 

“Fresno could become a bedroom community of the Silicon Valley,” the California High-Speed Rail Authority said a month before voters approved Proposition 1A in November 2008.

 

Yet bite after bite, huge cost overruns, mismanagement, political concessions and delays ate away at the sleek and soaring vision of a bullet train linking San Francisco to San Diego. A project meant to drive home California’s role as the high-tech vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped-up Amtrak route through the Central Valley.

 

During his first State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was scaling back the $77-billion project. Though his wording was open to interpretation, it appeared to sound the death knell, not necessarily for the project itself, but for the original dream.

 

The Democratic governor said he supports finishing the controversial high-speed rail line between Bakersfield and Merced but needs to reassess the crucial legs connecting major urban centers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

 

Social media erupted with quips about Bakersfield joining such storied bullet train destinations as Madrid, Tokyo, Milan, Beijing and Paris…

But Newsom did not actually call for any of the route to be cut. More than anything, his comments signaled that he had deep reservations about the viability of the project and would not be the same booster Gov. Jerry Brown was.

 

President Trump tweeted Wednesday night about the shift, declaring the project a “‘green’ disaster” and demanding that California return $3.5 billion in federal funds. “We want that money back now.”

 

Newsom tweeted back moments later, calling Trump’s claim “fake news” and refusing to return the money.

 

California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars. They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a “green” disaster!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019

Fake news. We’re building high-speed rail, connecting the Central Valley and beyond.

 

This is CA’s money, allocated by Congress for this project. We’re not giving it back. The train is leaving the station — better get on board!

 

(Also, desperately searching for some wall $$??) https://t.co/9hxEfEX8Vm

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 14, 2019

 

Finishing the Central Valley portion of the line first has long been the plan. The question left unanswered after Newsom’s speech is how aggressively Sacramento will pursue connecting the line to the Bay Area and to Los Angeles, said Rebecca Saltzman, the vice president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors.

 

…Ten years after voters approved it, the project is $44 billion over budget and 13 years behind schedule.