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Jeff
01-07-2015, 08:03 AM
What a waste of money, the liberal way :rolleyes: 4 million a day for something that once done will be over priced and they have already said it won't be used as they had hoped. A complete waste of money on something that is already 13 years behind schedule. It was going to help with pollution but they now say it wont do anything to help, guess it will be helping that global warming :rolleyes:



Despite cost overruns, lawsuits, public opposition and a projected completion date 13 years behind schedule, California Gov. Jerry Brown broke ground Tuesday on what is to become the most expensive public works project in U.S. history: the California bullet train.
Over the next 1,000 days, California is estimated to spend roughly $4 million a day on the project.
The high-speed train, set to be finished in 2033, originally was supposed to deliver passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours and 40 minutes. That was the promise when voters narrowly approved $10 billion in bonds for the project in 2008. Since then, however, the estimated trip time has grown considerably, and the train has encountered persistent problems -- as experts uncovered misrepresentations in the ballot proposition, and opponents sued to stop the project on environmental and fiscal grounds.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/07/california-bullet-train-most-expensive-public-works-project-in-us-history/?intcmp=latestnews