![]() ![]() President Barack Obama proposed an 8,600-mile high-speed-rail system, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the United States to be the “global leader” in high-speed rail. As far as its enthusiasts are concerned, it is like socialism - never failed, just never truly tried. Not that the California experience will diminish the progressive ardor for high-speed rail. Now it’s $113 billion, with no one knowing where the funding is going to come from. ![]() No matter how high California has estimated the cost of the project, it hasn’t been high enough, even as almost nothing has been built. Throw on top California’s politicized decision-making and regulatory and legal obstacles to building, and it’s a formula for a boondoggle for the ages. If transportation is conceived as a way to save the planet and fulfill a deep-seated, quasi-religious fixation rather than a means to move people around more efficiently, it is bound to fail. The ongoing unraveling of California’s rail plan is an object lesson in how infrastructure as eschatology is a bad idea. Trump's enemies pursue more and more indictments - to ensure his 2024 nominationĪmerica’s woke military is leaving us dangerously unpreparedĬalifornia progressives tried to build a European-style high-speed-rail network and alienated the French in the process.Ī big New York Times piece on the rail project reports that the French, who wanted to work with California, decided the state was simply too dysfunctional and departed to help complete a high-speed line in Morocco instead. Joe Biden is Donald Trump’s best (political) friend The fear factor is driving Trump's dominance of the GOP field Hillary's 'deplorables' are now the lonely - and Biden's infrastructure plan is the solution (really!) ![]()
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