With California’s High Speed Rail (HSR) debacle straggling along, there’s a fair chance they could be losing monies that was going to be slated for them.
Of course, as it stands, voters who didn’t read the entire proposition voted in the High Speed Rail Project, back then touted with a $10B bill, has now hit new estimates of upwards of $99B. Nice sales pitch on the proposition. If anything, this sad fight for our future says we need to read our voter pamphlets. The whole thing!
But as it stands, Union Pacific chimed in a few weeks ago, sounding like they weren’t going to play ball with the HSR project… and rightfully so. (It’s up to them to grant passage rights or not.) And the worst possible aspect is starting to raise its head….
The HSR committee doesn’t know where they’re going to get most of this money they need, so they’re only going to build, at one section at a time.
The federal government has pointed just over $3B to the project, with the disclaimer that construction has to start next year. So to make sure they get the money, the HSR project will start building their highly technological new transportation avenue in the Central Valley of CA, from Borden to Corcoran.
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