California's high-speed rail project has faced significant delays and cost overruns, with billions of dollars spent on minimal progress. The project, which includes the construction of the Tuolumne Street Bridge and the Hanford Viaduct, has taken over a decade and cost tens of billions of dollars for just a fraction of the intended infrastructure. Despite the completion of some structures like the Tuolumne Street Bridge, the overall progress has been slow, with only 0.3 miles completed after 15 years at a cost of $11.2 billion. Critics have highlighted the inefficiency, comparing the slow pace of construction unfavorably with historical achievements like the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Meanwhile in California, the project that I voted against as an absurd boongdoogle for 33B, has turned into a 100B dollar boondoggle and we still have no high speed rail. (Source: SF Chronicle) https://t.co/qKNCw5CwXR https://t.co/eBBSN3Ksuz
Meanwhile in California, the project that I voted against as an absurd boongdoogle for 2B, has turned into a 100B dollar boondoggle and we still have no high speed rail. (Source: SF Chronicle) https://t.co/KiOMyoKXEB https://t.co/eBBSN3Ksuz
Four years to build the golden gate bridge before we had computers. 16 years to build a little piece of track in Fresno Our society is in decline https://t.co/eelYvRLl45
It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building. But it has only been 5,840 days (16 years) for this high speed rail bridge to no where to be built in Fresno, California. Please clap. https://t.co/nF56iZmxRe
It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building. But it has only been 5,840 days (16 years) for this high speed rail bridge to no where to be built in Modesto California. Please clap. https://t.co/9cgwVaiswB
This is what your $8 billion got you. A postmodern art work about high speed rail that begins nowhere and ends nowhere https://t.co/njwYaJPNFZ
The craziest part isn’t that it took 15y and $11B (more than SpaceX has ever raised) to lay 0.3 mi of tracks The craziest part is that they *tweeted proudly about it.* These institutions are on the Dunning Kruger peak: too incompetent to even realize how incompetent they are. https://t.co/SyXJ9U8tJc
It's the Merced, Fresno, Hanford, and Bakersfield Hi-Speed Line! Like a western version of a $125B Hagerstown, Williamsport, Horseheads, and Beaver Falls Hi-Speed Line. https://t.co/hgvszksk2Y
0.3 miles completed. After 15 years. After $11.2 BILLION. $36.96 billion per mile. https://t.co/fbGTcmou8b
After 45 years from the conception date and a hundred billion in cost overruns, you can now get 1/5 of a mile closer to Shafter from Madera in only 5 seconds. Just think what can happen with hundreds of billions more over the next half century. https://t.co/q8O2X3ZlHu
California can’t even build a public toilet and they are planning on spending $11 BILLION dollars over 9 years to build HIGH SPEED RAIL? This feels like the Humane pin level grift of California. A vaporware project that nobody wants and they’ve been talking about for decades.
I think California's high-speed rail project is very important and should be finished, but worry about how the project will fare during a second Trump term. Can California identify new funding mechanisms? Turn it over to a private corporation? Invite a foreign firm to finish it?
can someone high school or older (doing algebra in middle school is racist in san francisco) tell me when we’ll get high speed rail if we’re building 0.3 miles in 9 years https://t.co/Z02F2crQMe
Drive on State Route 198 through Hanford and you’ll see high-speed rail’s largest structure currently underway. The Hanford Viaduct is more than 6,330 feet long and connects to the future Kings/Tulare Station in Kings County. #BuildHSR #InfrastructureMonth https://t.co/ZovISe4TK4
California bragging about taking 10 years to build a 1600-foot bridge for billions of dollars https://t.co/VO344eoyOc
Meanwhile, we can’t get a high-speed train to downtown Los Angeles. https://t.co/9MtUZMUAmJ
The Tuolumne Street Bridge is one of the first completed high-speed rail structures. The original bridge was demolished to make way for a new bridge that was taller for high-speed rail trains to travel underneath. #BuildHSR #InfrastructureMonth https://t.co/DspddgMoXL
10 years and tens of billions of dollars to complete 1600 FEET of high-speed rail. https://t.co/7k4Oi662tI
10 years and tens of billions of dollars to complete 1600 feet of high-speed rail. https://t.co/7k4Oi662tI