Grifters gotta grift. From The Sacramento Bee:
California high-speed rail asks Newsom to release $4.1 billion as cost continues to swell
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is asking Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators to release about $4.1 billion in state bond funds to ensure that there is enough money to complete construction that’s now underway on the bullet-train route in Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties.
If the governor, the state Assembly and the state Senate ultimately concur this spring, the money would come from Proposition 1A, a $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond approved by California voters in 2008. The rail authority’s board unanimously approved the request in a Zoom video meeting Tuesday.
Still pending in the state’s 3rd District Court of Appeal, however, is a legal challenge over whether the state can use the Proposition 1A money for what critics say is not a fully usable section of what voters intended as a statewide system of electrified trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
They are trying to run this through prime agricultural land. There is absolutely zero need for this - airplanes work well for those that have to make the journey and the railroad would need constant subsidization to even operate. A money pit now, a money pit forever.
Title of the post? Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens spotlighted conditions in England and his writings helped to bring about changes in the way that the poor and institutionalized were treated. We could do with some of those lessons now instead of blowing taxpayer money on useless crap like this.
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