A Dozen Protesters Support the High Speed Train to Nowhere

You would think the people in line to get some of the money would have funded a few more. A Dozen Protesters Rally for California's High Speed Rail to Nowhere | Frontpage Mag

California’s high-speed rail had a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020.

It’s 2025 and the budget has shot up to $128 billion.

Nothing has been built (except mansions for the well-connected) and there’s no sign that’s about to change.

That 9.95 billion dollars was for the entire thing. Los Angeles to San Francisco. Current budget is for Bakersfield to Merced. Which is why people are calling it the train to nowhere.

And for that they got a dozen protestors, because a lot of people don't want to spend any more money on it. The Trump Administration definitely wants to get the federal government out of the business of funding this insanity.

Connecting Merced to San Francisco, and Bakersfield to Los Angeles would require some fairly intense tunneling. Nothing that a company like Herrenkenect couldn't handle, but no matter how you slice it, that won't be cheap.

There were awkward hipsters probably employed by nonprofit groups, a guy in a COVID mask and a guy dressed like a dinosaur.

And someone who threw a tomato at a legislator. But most relevantly, the best the protest could do was about a dozen leftists.

It being California, I'm sure that no one was charged with assault.