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State Chapters => California => Topic started by: Elderberry on March 13, 2020, 02:01:22 pm
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Climate Change Dispatch by Jazz Shaw on Mar 13, 2020
Going back to early 2018, Ed Morrissey was already sounding the alarm about the way that California’s vaunted high-speed rail line, affectionately known as the bullet train, was imploding as the world watched.
By that point, cost estimates for the rail project had nearly tripled from the original projections, jumping high enough to quite literally pay for seven new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers for the Navy or wipe out more than three-quarters of Venezuela’s staggering national debt.
We’re now talking about $77B. But the specifics of how things flew so badly off the rails (pardon the pun) have remained something of a mystery.
It would be easy enough to write this off to normal bureaucratic incompetence, except the daunting magnitude of this financial failure seems a bit much even for gross stupidity to explain.
Now, however, the Los Angeles Times has spoken to a number of whistleblowers from WSP, the primary contractor handling the planning and management of the huge construction project.
More: https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-bullet-train-bigger-mess/ (https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-bullet-train-bigger-mess/)
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From article
Several of them agree that everyone knew the project was a disaster, but the company’s leadership had made it clear that nobody was to speak up about it or their careers would take a downward turn.
A core problem was the project’s operating culture, in which managers for WSP, the bullet train’s lead consultant, threatened to punish or terminate employees if they failed to toe the company line, Styles said.
Since federal funds were involved, silencing whistleblowers like this is illegal and prosecution is warranted.
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California’s Bullet Train A Bigger Mess Than Anyone Realized
Uh, no. Conservatives realized this before the Dems even started building it.
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Doesn't Texas have a high speed train in the works?
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Doesn't Texas have a high speed train in the works?
https://www.texascentral.com/alignment-maps/ (https://www.texascentral.com/alignment-maps/)
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Doesn't Texas have a high speed train in the works?
A private company in Texas does.
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Uh, no. Conservatives realized this before the Dems even started building it.
I voted against the bond-doggle initiative that authorized and provided state funding for this abortion.
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More: https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-bullet-train-bigger-mess/ (https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-bullet-train-bigger-mess/)
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