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Tag: California High Speed Rail

‘Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground’ – A Comparative Study

December 14, 2022   2:45 amDecember 13, 2022   8:54 pm
So “Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground” is from David Letterman’s “Top 10 Courses Taken by Basketball Players at UNLV”  from decades ago about basketball players take. That nasty great aunt you haven’t talked to in years has finally...
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California High Speed Rail: Low Speed Fail

December 11, 2022   2:30 amDecember 12, 2022   2:10 pm
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland. Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and more expensive and further behind schedule and more incomprehensible...
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CA High-Speed Rail Authority Awards $35 Million Stations Design Contract

October 21, 2022   11:47 amOctober 21, 2022   2:19 pm
The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors approved a $35 million design and support services contract for four Central Valley stations on Thursday to Foster + Partners and Arup (F+P Arup), inflating the $113 billion high-speed rail budget even...
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California High-Speed Rail Board Approves Construction of Lines into Bakersfield, Merced

August 18, 2022   2:30 amAugust 17, 2022   9:02 pm
The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors announced on Wednesday that they approved the  continued construction of the network into both Merced and Bakersfield. Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, costs of the high speed rail system...
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What Else California Could Have Done With the High-Speed Rail Funds

July 25, 2022   2:50 amJuly 24, 2022   7:39 pm
First things first, let’s set some parameters for this article. One – California’s High Speed Rail network is not going to be built. At this point, that’s a given. Two – Even it were to be built and managed to hit...
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California’s Electric High Speed Rail: No Power, No Money, No ‘High Speed’

July 22, 2022   2:50 amJuly 23, 2022   4:54 pm
“If it is built, California’s High-Speed Rail would be the largest public works project in state history. That fact alone appears be intoxicating to state officials, in a perpetual quest to have California be the first state to do anything,”...
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The Abundance Choice, Part 8: The Union Factor

May 28, 2022   2:22 amMay 31, 2022   4:47 pm
The moment we met Robbie Hunter, then president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, we knew we were in the presence of a man who does not lose. Assemblyman Devon Mathis had urged me to contact the construction unions...
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