Can you imagine the corruption Trump auditors will find with manipulated contracts beholden to political graft?
A few greedy people have made big money for doing next to nothing but performing a Potemkin shell game.
“Guess which shell the green pea is under. Oops, you lose, try again.”
California has been toying with a high-speed rail system since the 1970s, and the effort has included multiple studies and commissions. The California High-Speed Rail Authority was established in 1996 to oversee it.
Timeline
- 1979: Governor Jerry Brown first proposed high-speed rail in California
- 1982: Brown signed a bill for a line between Los Angeles and San Diego, but it was not approved due to economic and environmental concerns
- 1994: California was identified as one of five corridors for high-speed rail planning
- 1996: The California High-Speed Rail Authority was established
- 2008: Voters approved Proposition 1A, which provided funding for the project
- 2010: The federal government provided stimulus funds
- 2013: Construction contracts were awarded
- 2015: Groundbreaking ceremony was held for initial construction
Current status
The project’s completion date is still unknown, and costs have risen well above original estimates. The project has been criticized for its cost and for being behind schedule, due to incompetence by Newsom and Buttigieg.
***
While we’re on this subject, have you ever traveled on the tired old Amtrak trains across this continent? Well, I have. it’s an embarrassment. It took three days at an average speed of 50 mph on rusty rickety tracks.
Crossing Arizona, I suffered distress from hypoxia, likely at 7000 to 9000 feet because we traveled slowly. The time spent crossing from LA to D.C. would have been a mere 10 hours at 300 mph without hypoxia. That would compete with commercial air travel of 5 hours cross country. Maybe Big Boeing is why we don’t have Maglev.
Highspeed maglev bullet trains should have been constructed here 22 years ago, as Japan and China did. Now they reach half the speed of sound.
Maglev top speed
In April 2015, a manned superconducting Maglev train broke two previous land speed records for rail vehicles. The train was clocked at 603 kilometers per hour or 375 miles per hour. This is much faster than the Maglev trains already operating in Shanghai, China, and in South Korea, which run at speeds of 268 to 311 miles per hour and 68 miles per hour, respectively.
The Maglev train has also exceeded previous Shinkansen world speed records in trials at the Miyazaki Test Track. Most Shinkansen trains operate at speeds of about 500 kilometers per hour (200 to 275 miles per hour). As new technologies are developed and instituted, future trains may achieve even greater velocities.–
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 
Leave a comment