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First section of CA bullet train to connect two small cities

Friday, 20 June 2025, 10:00 MJA Uncategorized 17

(The Center Square) — The California High-Speed Rail Authority has responded to the Federal Rail Authority’s plan to terminate $4 billion in federal funding for the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high speed rail project. 

Its response elaborates on its plans for continuing initial work on a 119-mile segment between Madera, which has a population of nearly 70,000, and Poplar Avenue in Kern County, which is near Shafter, a small city of just over 20,000 residents northwest of Bakersfield. 

This segment is being expanded into the 171-mile “early operating segment” that will carry passengers all the way between Bakersfield and Merced by 2033.  more

17 Comments on First section of CA bullet train to connect two small cities

  1. …the 171-mile “early operating segment” that will carry passengers all the way between Bakersfield and Merced by 2033.

    HAHAHAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAHAHA! *snort*

    We’ll all have flying cars before the CA high-speed boondoggle offers transportation that anybody wants.

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  2. Bakersfield to Merced is only a 2.5 hour drive, and when you arrive, you have a car to get you where you actually NEED TO GO…which I guarantee is NOT THE TRAIN STATION.

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  6. Time to congratulate Newscum. Give him a celebratory cigar. When he puts it in his mouth, light it then stand back and watch it explode in his face. The same thing has been happening to him fr years with this ABORTION of a project.

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  7. A bullet train never fed a starving child. Isn’t that what we heard from Democrats for decades? These goddamn things are nothing but open, in your face, money laundering on a grand scale.

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  8. According to Grok (X), 22 miles of track are complete.
    Everything they do to keep the project going is for the singular purpose of extending the grift.

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  9. Now watch no one want to ride the damned thing once they once they add up the costs of the round-trip train ride, Uber, Lift, Taxis plus tips for these rides to get them around. They will not be riding the busses because they will spend more time just riding the routes than actually getting anything accomplished, be it for business or pleasure.

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  10. ” possibly optimistic, two million annual riders on the Bakersfield-Merced segment would not cover operating costs.”
    That’s quite a load of farm workers to run back and forth. What else is there in the Madera / Shafter area ?

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  12. California is losing 2 billion a year in tax revenue from Teslas departure. Between 2020 and 2022 California lost 102 Billion dollars in Tax revenue due to cooperate and high income earners leaving the state. It’s only getting worse. And the ass hat in charge is throwing money at this mess? The same ass hat that thinks California Tax Payers should pay for healthcare for everyone on the face of the earth.
    Sheriff Bianco is visiting our county next week. Looks to be a small affair. I’m sure he’s looking for money. But I plan on asking him two questions. #1 will be election integrity. #2 is if he’s aware of this bull shit I just posted. He should contact Elon for some help.

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  14. I always grin when someone from, say, England complains that the US doesn’t have enough commuter trains. Coming from people who live in a country the side of New England. If it’s that large. There is a reason why commuter trains don’t work here outside of the big cities. I doubt they’re all that popular in Australia either.

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  16. By the time they put an actual train on the tracks, they’ll discover that the old track has deteriorated and needs to be replaced before trains can run.

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