The California high-speed rail project, authorized in 2008, has faced significant criticism for its inefficiency and lack of progress, with zero miles of high-speed rail completed in over 15 years. Despite being billions over budget and years behind schedule, the project has created 13,000 jobs. Critics compare this unfavorably to the six-year construction of the transcontinental railroad by private companies. Concerns about the feasibility of electric locomotives have been raised, with a rail executive describing the task as impossible and a potential derailment of BNSF’s $1.5 billion Barstow International Gateway project. The Federal Railroad Administration's nine-year process to issue an Environmental Impact Statement for Union Station's redevelopment underscores the bureaucratic challenges in rail infrastructure.
California bureaucrats know best, but rail exec says: “We’ve done our best to test out electric locomotives, but do not have an electric locomotive that works. It’s an impossible task.” State could derail BNSF’s $1.5 billion Barstow International Gateway https://t.co/xm2dodec7y
Jobs = 13K. Miles of rail = 0. Embarrassing. https://t.co/KEKnTynmLT
California's High Speed Rail project, a boondoggle few actually want which is billions over budget & years behind schedule, touts having reached a major milestone. No, not of miles of track completed or passengers carried - those are both zeroes - but of jobs "created." https://t.co/N2nmQvzE3N
It's very helpful to have actual examples of this kind of absurd thinking It's been more than 15 years. There are NO MILES OF HI-SPEED TRAIN operating-None. But....muh jobs! Paying people large $$ to do nothing is a 3rd world gig. California is well-suited for such practices. https://t.co/uFxfa3iKTR
The California high speed rail project was authorized in 2008. It’s 2024 and there are still ***zero miles*** of high speed rail in California. But hey, they created some jobs. https://t.co/t5cjH14joJ
#Opinion Metrolinx moves slow and breaks things. But sometimes that's what it takes to build transit https://t.co/CQfyxHfZ1O
Dude how about we put a train in California first? https://t.co/GsYNbhNKlv
It took three private companies just six years to build the transcontinental railroad. It took the Federal Railroad Administration nine years just to issue one Environmental Impact Statement to redevelop Union Station. https://t.co/hNMnMgC2vn