The United States needs High-Speed Rail

[eliteballer]

Damn the special interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaf6baEu0_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hdA11CT2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6W3Kv6mMzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJEQjabJjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6_3uNXcqc

[Cleverness]

The one-party state of California started its High Speed Rail Project in 2008.

It was supposed to be a $9.95 billion bond that would be repaid by private investors.

12 years later...

No private investors

$100 billion dollar big gov't boondoggle

Taxpayers scammed

No train

ETA pushed back to the year 2033

[Shogon]

The one-party state of California started its High Speed Rail Project in 2008.

It was supposed to be a $9.95 billion bond that would be repaid by private investors.

12 years later...

No private investors

$100 billion dollar big gov't boondoggle

Taxpayers scammed

No train

ETA pushed back to the year 2033

Give the project to Elon and it'll get done, lul.

[Axe]

Dream on lmao. Uncle sam has undying love for motor vehicles.

[bladefd]

The one-party state of California started its High Speed Rail Project in 2008.

It was supposed to be a $9.95 billion bond that would be repaid by private investors.

12 years later...

No private investors

$100 billion dollar big gov't boondoggle

Taxpayers scammed

No train

ETA pushed back to the year 2033

Sh!t like that pisses me off. The middlemen, politicians, whoever took all the money and nobody gets held accountable. That will be the downfall of this country as it was in Ancient Rome. Corruption and waste is what always brings nations down.

[Hawker]

California is the special interest. Scammed taxpayers across the US.

[Phong]

Give the project to Elon and it'll get done, lul.

Elon couldn't even build a 3-mile long tunnel under LA.

[FKAri]

Sh!t like that pisses me off. The middlemen, politicians, whoever took all the money and nobody gets held accountable. That will be the downfall of this country as it was in Ancient Rome. Corruption and waste is what always brings nations down.

Too much incompetence, corruption, and meddling to let the govt handle stuff like this. You need the private sector. But no one wants to deal with the up front costs and gigantic investment needed.

[Patrick Chewing]

What happened to the Hyperloop project??

[BigKobeFan]

Damn the special interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaf6baEu0_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hdA11CT2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6W3Kv6mMzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJEQjabJjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc6_3uNXcqc

In california, they started a rail program about 15 years ago, all it built was a mile

[Axe]

If they build high speed rails there rn, how long do you think they would last? 2 years at the most?

[bladefd]

Too much incompetence, corruption, and meddling to let the govt handle stuff like this. You need the private sector. But no one wants to deal with the up front costs and gigantic investment needed.

Private sector can't raise a sum like $10 billion. They need immediate return on investment rather than 20yrs down the road. Only nation-states can afford those kinds of sums..

Private construction companies also know how to take advantage of the system so if government provides funds, private construction companies will simply delay-delay-delay the work years and years to keep sucking up money like leeches. Politicians allow that to continue because they are in on it or because they hire a company they are in bed with or because they are simply too inept. Politicians fund a project then leave office in 4-6yrs and the project dies with partial money already spent. Someone else comes along, they may decide to kill the partially-finished project or decide to throw more money at it.

All returns to corruption and lack of accountability.

[LAmbruh]

The first section from San Fernando to Fresno was nearly complete until Trump pulled funding to satisfy his Big Oil buddies


Shame, his admin single handedly setting us back into medieval times of technology

[BigKobeFan]

The first section from San Fernando to Fresno was nearly complete until Trump pulled funding to satisfy his Big Oil buddies


Shame, his admin single handedly setting us back into medieval times of technology

Actually gruesom pulled the plug

[eliteballer]

What you dopes are missing is that the problems the California project has had are due to the exact same issues that plague governance and development everywhere in this country.