> > California is taking of heat for celebrating the completion of an high-
> > speed rail bridge that has cost taxpayers $11 billion and took nine years to
> > build . and clearly goes nowhere.
> To the contrary. The Rail-to-Nowhere project accomplished exactly what
> it was intended to do -- it siphoned a whole lot of money to the
> construction company owned by CA Senator Diane Feinstein's husband,
> which was awarded the contract. (Yes, really.)
Why am I not at all surprised?
> At the time the most expensive trip-by-car cost about $200, and you
> could fly the same route on Southwest Air for a bit less. A taxi for the
> distance cost about $400.
Considering what it was intended to do, I am not shocked that a trip would
have to cost much more than any of those options in order for the line to
even break even.
Mike
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