Showing posts with label Bullet Train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bullet Train. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2015

KeystoneXL privately funded=bad; bullet train partially publicly funded=OK

January 15, 2015 Andrew Romano , Bullet Train 0 Comments
The Twisted Saga Behind California’s Bullet Train

Andrew Romano, Jan. 14, 2015, Yahoo! News

The groundbreaking ceremony for California’s long-awaited, long-debated, long-delayed high-speed rail system — a 220 mph, $68.4 billion bullet train designed to zip between Los Angeles and San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes — was set to start at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 6.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

LAT Buries The Lede: Rail Authority Tried To Intimidate Consultants To Hide $1B Cost Overrun --What cost overrun?

May 13, 2014 Bullet Train , California High-Speed Rail Authority 0 Comments
Credit: California High-Speed Rail Authority
By Tom Blumner, May 11, 2014, Newsbusters.org

The estimated cost of the initial segment of California's bullet train, Golden State Governor Jerry Brown's pet project, has (excuse the pun) just shot up from $6.19 billion to $7.13 billion. If this is the only overrun encountered in this opening phase, which would be atypical, and if the California High Speed Rail Authority has similar experiences during the remainder of the project, assuming it's ever completed, its cost will rise from a currently estimated $68 billion to about $78 billion.

Obviously a big cost overrun is news. But normally, evidence of an attempted government coverup of such an overrun is even bigger news. But not at the Los Angeles Times. The paper's Ralph Vartabedian kept it out of his headline and waited until his story's ninth paragraph to note it. Even then, his description was needlessly vague.:

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Newsbusters: "Calif Gov: Another Reason for Bullet Train--'There's a lot of old people who shouldn't be driving'" --(Gov. is 78.)

March 20, 2014 Bullet Train , California 0 Comments
By Tom Blumer, Newsbusters
California Governor Jerry Brown apparently thinks he's some kind of comedian. I would suggest that he not quit his current day job, but many readers would probably prefer he do that.
At a union-organized joint legislative conference on Monday, as reported in the Sacramento Bee, Brown told the following knee-slapper in connection with the high-speed rail project which is on track (excuse the pun) to become the mother of all public works boondoggles: "There's a lot of old people who shouldn't be driving ... They should be sitting in a nice train car working on their iPad, having a martini." More from the Bee's blog post (I would not know if it made it to the paper's print edition) follows the jump:
Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown's new push for high-speed rail: Get old people off the road

Gov. Jerry Brown has a new argument for high-speed rail: Get senior citizens off the road.
"There's a lot of old people who shouldn't be driving," the Democratic governor joked at a dinner hosted by labor leaders in Sacramento on Monday night. "They should be sitting in a nice train car working on their iPad, having a martini."
Brown, who will turn 76 next month, has other means of transportation, as he is chauffeured by a California Highway Patrol officer. He has made high-speed rail a priority of his administration, despite legal setbacks, funding uncertainty and a fall-off in public support. 
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